Description

Lacquered wood, flat back in a policeman’s hat adorned with a pair of plumes, cuffed armrests, resting on fluted tapered legs rudentés. Yellow velvet trim (used).

Restorations of use and maintenance. Condition of use.

XVIII century.

H: 91; L: 57; P: 57 cm

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (Paris 1748-1803), carpenter in seats (chair, fireside chair, convertible, armchair, shepherdess, sofa, daybed) Paris. Like most 18th century carpenters, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené comes from a long-standing family: his grandfather Jean, his father Claude I (1724-1792) and his brother Claude II (master in 1769), practiced the same profession. Jean-Baptiste was born in Paris in 1748 and acquired the master’s degree at a very young age on May 10, 1769. Six months later, he settled in the neighborhood of carpenters and wood carvers, under the sign of “Gros Chapelet”. rue de Cléry in Paris. In 1784, his reputation is such that he counts with Georges Jacob, Boulard and François II Foliot among the regular suppliers of Garde-Meuble. He makes some of the most sumptuous furniture in seats for royal residences. In 1789, for example, under the direction of the architect Jean-Jacques Huvé, he delivered all the furniture of the Château de Montreuil donated by Louis XVI to Madame Élisabeth, including specially refined voyeur chairs for the Turkish salon. Niche Bed (1787), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Voyeur Chair (1787), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fire Screen (1787), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston His son Jean-Baptiste Sené succeeded him. Sené seats can be seen at the Palace of Versailles, Louvre Museum, Nissim-de-Camondo Museum, Blois Castle, Morlanne Castle, Evreux Museum (an armchair), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Paris. New York, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston