Empire Wall Console With Claw Feet In Mahogany Attributed To Louis Alexandre Bellangé

Wall console with claw feet in winding consoles, it rests on a plinth. Solid mahogany carved in the mass for the feet and mahogany veneer for the other surfaces. She is wearing a white marble. Our console is a wall-mounted model that attaches to the wall like the 18th century giltwood consoles. (this is the reason why we have placed removable white wooden cleats, for the needs of the photo). Beautiful work of Empire style and Restoration period (circa (1820-1825), it is attributable to Louis Alexandre Bellangé (not stamped). Louis Alexandre Bellangé comes from a prestigious dynasty of Parisian cabinetmakers, suppliers of crowned heads under all the regimes of the First to the Second Empire. Louis Alexandre Bellangé joined forces at the start of his career with his father before taking sole reins of the family business. Several elements in the production of LA Bellangé betray its beginnings stylistically subject to taste paternal, the permanence of a late Empire style, still very marked by Percier and Fontaine in the observance of the forms whose elaboration is to be sought 10 or 20 years earlier. Our console is exactly this powerful Empire style, still a long time ago. fashion after the fall of the Emperor. It takes up again with slight variations the feet and windings found on desks in the Bellangé catalog raisonné (Bellangé, cabinetmakers, a history of taste in the 19th century by Sylvain Cordier LAB 27 and LAB 28 pages 518 and 519). Excellent condition, our furniture comes from the cabinetmaker where it has received a new buffer varnish. Dimensions Height 98.5cm Width 130cm Depth 50 cm