Vintage Small Sofa Louis XVI Stamped From Lelarge

Stamped JB LELARGE under the seat in molded beech, carved and painted gray 104 cm x 132 cm x 75 cm end of the eighteenth century Garni a pretty blue velvet decorated losangé Provenance: Private Collection This rare small sofa in the folder Queen with rounded sides based on six fluted tapered legs to overcome rudentées connection dice decorated with jewels. The seat is elegantly curved front and sides. Joining many activities a very delicate taste, he won the vogue and received orders for the Crown. The creations of the son (Jean Baptiste III), processed in the classical genre, are often the first order: the purity of their lines, the rightness of proportion, grace and harmony of all the details show the care that brought master the study of its models. It was mostly medallion in barrels, which was called "the Artois" "Cabinetmakers eighteenth century, their works and their brands," François Comte de Salverte BIOGRAPHY: Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III, born in 1743 and died October 8, 1802, is a master in 1775. He made his Clery street apprenticeship in his father's workshop, Jean-Baptiste II, and succeeded him after receiving his master's letters. He quickly acquired a great reputation. If the archives of the Crown Furniture Repository do not mention his name, he worked extensively for a wealthy French and foreign customers, in which we find the king of Portugal. His company will survive the revolution, and he will take a certain activity until his death. It is possible that at the beginning of his career he has made Louis XV seats, but the fact that it uses the same stamp as his father does not tell. That is why only Louis XVI styles are usually attributed to him. The seats of John the Baptist testify III mostly of unquestionable class. Robust without heaviness, rigorously constructed without drought, perfectly assembled, they are adorned with simple moldings or fine sculptures and incisive, well distributed, without overload. A quantity of seats of all kinds out of the studio in the Rue de Clery. [...] These seats Occasional sometimes evoke the art of Jacob and Sené. Without equal the creative genius of his colleagues illustrate, the last of Lelarge remains a very good carpenter seats of Louis XVI. "The French furniture of the eighteenth century, Dictionary of Joiners and Cabinetmakers," Pierre Kjellberg, Les Editions de l'Amateur few seats Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III are seen in some museums, including: - Musée Carnavalet, Paris - Musée du Louvre , Paris - Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris - Wallace Collection, London - Museum of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg - Chateaux de Versailles - Castles Bourges