A style described by Gustave Flaubert as "imposing and diplomatic" in L’Éducation sentimentale.
€212,500 F.-H.-G. Jacob-Desmalter, after a model by J.-L. David, armchair from the studio of the artist Jacques-Louis David in mahogany, painted gilt wood, ebony and beaten iron, Paris ca. 1786-1789.
Paris, 2 December 2013. Kohn Marc-Arthur auction house.
The imperial bed, cheval glass and tripod pedestal table were all new elements in the grammar shaping the vocabulary of Empire furniture. A style marked by a more deliberately "antique feel than previously," says Pierre Verlet in his book on French 18th-century furniture. This was seen from the revolutionary period onwards in various pieces designed…
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