Arm Chair

between 1780 and 1785

Georges Jacob, Artist Beauvais Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Arm Chair

Artwork Date between 1780 and 1785

Makers Georges Jacob (Artist) French, 1739-1814 Beauvais Manufactory (Manufacturer) French

Medium Carved and gilded beechwood frame, wool and silk upholstery (beauvais tapestry)

Dimensions Overall: 36 × 25 1/2 × 22 inches (91.4 × 64.8 × 55.9 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.182

Markings

Marks Stamp, under rear seat rail: G. IACOB Marks, inside rear seat rail on an affixed blue-bordered label, in ink: 1391 | FAUTEUIL Mark, in blue wax crayon on the left seat rail Label, under the webbing of the seat: [circular Paris customs label]

Provenance

Madame Billout-Desmarets;
June 1, 1923, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) sale of Madame Billout-Desmarets collection, lot 20;
Vagliano;
(André J. Seligmann, Paris, France);
1932, acquired through (L. Alavoine, New York, New York, USA) by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement du XVIIIe siècle...appartenant à Madame B.-D. [Billout-Desmarets]." Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, June 1 1923, lot 20.

Winkour, R. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.

"La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (January 1972): supplement p. 93 (fig. 325).

Ledoux-Lebard, D. Inventaire général du Musée national de Versailles et des Trianons. Vol. 1 Le grand Trianon : meubles et objets d'art.Paris, 1975, pp. 36-38.

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 19, pp. 91-93 (ill.).

Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, cat. no. 18, pp. 15, 66, (ill.) p. 67.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Georges Jacob; Beauvais Manufactory, Arm Chair, between 1780 and 1785, carved and gilded beechwood frame, wool and silk upholstery (Beauvais tapestry). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.182.