Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Jacques Gondouin|Madame Pierre-Edme Babel|Claude-François Capin|François II Foliot|Marie-Catherine Renon
1779 · Carved and gilded beech; modern silk lampas · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Although intended to furnish Marie-Antoinette’s grand cabinet intérieur at the château de Versailles during the winter months, the chair and the rest of the set were removed in 1783, when the grand cabinet intérieur was redecorated and placed in the queen’s billiard room on the floor above. Sold during the French Revolution, the entire set of furniture was acquired by the American statesman Gouverneur Morris, who served as minister of the United States in France from 1792 to 1794. The pieces were subsequently sent to Morrisania, Morris’s country estate in the Bronx.
- Artist
- Jacques Gondouin|Madame Pierre-Edme Babel|Claude-François Capin|François II Foliot|Marie-Catherine Renon
- Date
- 1779
- Medium
- Carved and gilded beech; modern silk lampas
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944
