G.jacob (received Master In 1765) Pair Of Louis XVI Period Armchairs

Pair of convertible armchairs in gray lacquered beech, with medallion backs, armrest supports and fluted legs (and rudentes for all four) with constrictions carrying cubic dice decorated with rosettes. For one stamp of G Jacob (received master in 1765) not very legible, We think after showing them to several specialists (expert and cabinetmaker) that they are nevertheless indeed Jacob's. We guarantee them to be good from the time and from Jacob. Paris, Louis XVI period. Georges Jacob is considered the greatest carpenter and the most prolific in seating in the history of furniture. The remarkable quality of his work shines through here through the quality of simple convertibles which have survived the centuries without damage. Georges Jacob (1739-1814) – mastered on September 4, 1765: He is the most famous and the most creative of all the carpenters in the 18th century in France. At the forefront of its wealthy clientele is the royal family. He is the founder of a dynasty; two of his three sons, Georges II Jacob (1768-1803) and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770-1841), will be carpenters and cabinetmakers, then his grandson Alphonse Jacob-Desmalter (1799-1870) will extend the fame of the name of Jacob until the reign of Louis Philippe. Condition report: Very good condition of the barrels, without joints or reinforcement brackets - Strapping in good condition, fittings to be reinforced and a seat to be redone for one. Some traces of mold on one. One of the armchairs is in good condition, the other has suffered from humidity and needs to be reupholstered. What we think about it: the production of this chair carpenter is enormous and we should not believe that he only produced royal pieces like the famous salon aux épis for the Petit Trianon in Versailles. So our seats are commonly produced by this great cabinetmaker and carpenter. But they are in the middle of its most prolific period (1775-1790) and are located around 1785, and have all the attributes of Jacob chairs. The tapered legs, sculpted with roughened grooves, which connect to the belt by an ornate thimble with a rosette The armrests of the Louis XVI armchairs connect to the backs by an elegant uninterrupted ascending curve, and also draw a curve to join an abutment placed at the top of the legs. This is, again, a provision that has become classic, but which Jacob will be one of the first to generalize. - the characteristics of the simply molded base production, The recess of the internal face of the seat belt. The seats from Georges Jacob's workshop can be recognized, in particular, by the recess in their belts, a technique intended to reduce their weight. Only Jean Baptiste Sené will take this particularity into his own hands. Did you know ? : Georges Jacob went bankrupt several times. The upheavals linked to the Revolution put him in a difficult financial situation. The phenomenon of emigration, in particular, has a very significant impact on the fortune accumulated during thirty years of career and success. Many of his clients emigrate without paying their debts. A debt against the Count of Provence, in the amount of 85,000 pounds, representing the value of a hundred pieces of furniture, was never paid. Converted into a loan, in the form of several life annuities, in the 1780s, it became obsolete during the exile of the princes and the collapse of the monarchy3 He went bankrupt in 1796 and passed on his workshop to his two sons. Georges Jacob Fils and François-Honoré create the company Jacob Frères Rue Meslée, which will be active under the Directory and the Consulate. His production was considerable. The rue Meslée workshops produced a number of seats for which it would be difficult to give an estimate. To fully understand, you should know that at the height of its activity, Georges Jacob's workshop, in the 1780s, employed several hundred workers at the same time (some authors put forward the figure of 7004), and that, under the Empire, the Jacob Desmalter company employed some 350 workers.