JOSEPH CHINARD (1756-1813) The silence About... - Lot 37 - Osenat

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JOSEPH CHINARD (1756-1813) The silence About... - Lot 37 - Osenat
JOSEPH CHINARD (1756-1813) The silence About 1798 White marble Height : 86 cm - Width : 25,5 cm - Depth : 21,5cm Restorations to the right index, middle and thumb (January 1994) Louis Martin BERTHAULT (1771-1823), after JACOB-FRERES, Georges II JACOB (1768-1803) and François Honoré Georges JACOB (1770-1841)] Not signed Mahogany base, mahogany veneer and gilt bronze About 1798v Carries a gilt bronze cartouche and a Latin inscription in gilt bronze letters : " Tutatur somno et amores conscia lecti " (She protects dreams and loves, accomplice of the bed) H. 108,5 cm Cracks and scratches, missing cartouche and restorations Provenance : - Juliette Récamier, Paris, Hôtel 7, rue du Mont Blanc (former Hôtel Necker), ca. 1798 ; - Collection of the banker François-Dominique Mosselman following the purchase of the Hôtel Récamier in 1808; - By descent Exhibitions: - 1951 : Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Masterpieces of the Great Cabinetmakers 1790-1850, n°87, p.34 ; - 1977 : Lyon, Musée Historique de Lyon, Hôtel Gadagne, Madame Récamier, n°36 bis ; - 1994 : Paris, Louvre Museum on the occasion of the acquisition of part of the furniture of Juliette Récamier's bedroom; - 2003 : New Orleans, Jefferson's America and Napoleon's France, New Orleans Museum of Art ; n°118 ; - 2009 : Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Art, Juliette Récamier, Muse et Mécène, 27 March - 29 June 2009, cat.IV.9. Works of reference : - Rome, 2nd century AD, Barbarian prisoner known as "Thusnelda", marble, H. 225 cm, Florence, Loggia della Signora; - Pierre II Legros, Véturie / Vestale / Le Silence, 1692-1695, marble, H. 250 cm, Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, n°inv. M.R 2020. Related works cited in the entry: - François Perrier, Segmenta Nobilium Signorum et Statuarum, 1638, "Véturie," engraving 76 ; - Charles Lebrun, Agrippine, drawing, 1643, catalog des dessins, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Fonds français N°17217, fol. 18 and 20 - Etienne Parrocel, Une jeune femme drapée, le sein gauche découvert dessinée sous deux angles différents, dim. 21,1 x 27,9 cm, pen and brown ink, inscription Villa Medici, Album " Parrocel Etienne ", Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques, Folio 222 drawn on the front, RF. 3729, 227 ; - Jacques Louis David, " Thusnelda ", four drawings, dim. 19,3 x 13,3 cm, circa 1775/1780, black stone, pen and ink, Album " David Jacques-Louis " -11-, Paris, musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques, RF 54320, Recto. JULIETTE RECAMIER MUSE, EGÉRIE, BEAUTY QUEEN AND PATRON OF THE ARTS The storm that has just swept away the Monarchy and shaken the French society precipitates the evolution of the spirits. In the middle of this stirring of ideas and passions appears a famous personality as well by its beauty as by its spirit, which becomes a true myth: Juliette Récamier: "...The author of this beautiful work turned everything to her profit....s her eyes which were to penetrate later all the souls sparkled with a lively gaiety....but already one could notice in her this observation and above all that exquisite feeling of elegance, purity and good taste, true native nobility which the titles are stamped on the privileged beings" such is the portrait that Benjamin Constant draws of her Benjamin Constant 1. On April 11, 17932 Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, then 15 years old, married the banker Jacques Rose Récamier, 26 years her senior. They bought on 25 Vendemiaire year VII (16 October 1798) the Necker hotel built by the architect architect Cherpitel, 7 rue du Mont Blanc3, in the Chaussée-d'Antin district, the center of the residences of the upper of the high bourgeoisie, financiers and the newly enriched, at the end of the 18th century. It is located between the hotel Guimard-Perregaux, work of Nicolas Ledoux, and the hotel of Epinay- Grimm: "the hotel does not have vast proportions...but it has very good air at the bottom of its court surrounded of beautiful buildings" 4. The interior renovation was entrusted to the architect Louis Martin Berthault 5 (1767-1823), with the contribution of the contribution of Charles Percier. Jacques Rose Récamier chose this architect, the Berthault family having previously having previously carried out work for him. The Duchess of Abrantès commented: "Berthault had taste and exquisite taste, I have never seen an apartment I have never seen an apartment arranged by him otherwise than very well. The one of Mrs. Récamier is one of the best, among the most neat; the dining room, the bedroom, the first living room, the large living room, everything was magnificent and elegantly furnished. The bedroom especially served as a model for all that was done in this that has been made in this kind and I do not believe that since
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