LIVING ROOM OF Mister SUCHET LIVING ROOM... - Lot 250 - Osenat

LIVING ROOM OF Mister SUCHET LIVING ROOM FURNITURE including the meeting of a suite of four armchairs and a suite of four chairs with flat back in gilded wood molded and carved with lotus leaves, fleurons and pastilles, The straight armrests with cuff are supported by a baluster pilaster, the belt slightly curved, the armchairs rest on front legs in baluster pilaster, the chairs on tapered legs slightly baluster, with rings and arched back legs. Stamped JACOB D./RUE MESLEE. An armchair has an old handwritten label in ink " Salon de Monsieur le Chevalier Suchet ", and a chair with F in black stencil. Empire period (accidents, restorations and chips) Armchair: H: 99 W: 65 D: 66 cm Chair H: 92 W: 50 D:50 cm It was upholstered in yellow silk decorated with a large rosette in a laurel wreath for the seat and a vase surrounded by two branches of laurel joined by a finial (some stains and wear) Provenance - Gabriel Catherine SUCHET (1773-1835), Chevalier d'Empire in 1808, administrator of the tobacco industry from 1811 to 1815, then Maître de Requêtes at the Conseil d'Etat and deputy of Ardèche in 1815, aide-de-camp of his brother Marshal Suchet, duke of Albufera. - Paris Drouot sale, 25 October 2017, n° 246. The stamp JACOB D rue Meslée is used by François-Honoré-Georges JACOB and Georges JACOB from 1803 to 1813.