Collection Highlights
Baby walker
1700-1800
INV.14959
Pine
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Chaise (side chair)
Object name
Chaise (side chair)
Date
1779
Medium
Beech, gilding; silk upholstery
Dimensions
Overall: 41 x 23 x 21 in. ( 104.1 x 58.4 x 53.3 cm )
Description
Carved and gilded beechwood Louis XVI chaise (side chair) with arched rectangular back in molded frame with carved paquerettes and acanthus; trapezoidal seat with seat rail carved similarly to the crest rail; on circular tapering spiral-reeded legs headed by leaf tips and beaded. Original upholstery housed separately; chair currently upholstered in fabric reproducing original covering.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Gouverneur Morris
Object Number
1817.13
Marks
stenciled: on chair webbing: French Royal Inventory Number-Versailles Crowned W #194
Gallery Label
This elaborately carved and gilded chair was originally part of a suite that Marie-Antoinette ordered in 1779 for her private apartments at Versailles. New Yorker Gouverneur Morris, the American ambassador to France, purchased the suite at an auction of royal effects held after the fall of the ancien r
Provenance
Made for the Grand Cabinet Interior de la Reine de Versailles, Marie Antoinette, ca. 1779
Gouverneur Morris, ca. 1793 to 1816 (U.S. Minister to French Court during French Revolution).
Bibliography
Olson, Roberta J. M. "A selection of European paintings and objects." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 182-187.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
