Lot n° 39
Estimation :
30000 - 50000
EUR
JACOB-DESMALTER, attributed to
[Georges... - Lot 39 - Osenat
JACOB-DESMALTER, attributed to
[Georges JACOB (1739-1814)
and François Honoré Georges JACOB (1770-1841)]
Bed called "en nacelle
in mahogany and mahogany veneer with bedsides decorated with swan necks, it is decorated with a rich decoration of chased and gilded bronzes distributed on the flanges and the long front panel such as: laurel branches, antique profiles in medallions, scrolls ending with scrolls and fleurons in appliques. It rests on sheathed feet finished with casters.
Empire period
(Restorations)
H. 111 x W. 198 x D.123 cm
Provenance:
Former Hôtel Récamier, rue du Mont Blanc, collection of François-Dominique Mosselman and remained in his descendants to this day
Exhibitions:
- 2003: New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, Jefferson's America & Napoleon's France, no. 115;
- 2009: Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, March 27-June 29 Juliette Récamier, Muse et mécène, p. 192, cat IV.10.
These beds are always placed parallel to the wall, the long front panel being alone decorated with gilded bronzes, and most often placed on a platform.
The inventory after death of Mrs. Mosselman drawn up on April 24, 18291 mentions: "a bed with a mahogany platform decorated with swans and gilded bronze nets and garlands, valued at two hundred and forty francs ci......240
a bed base, three mattresses, two bolsters, a woolen blanket, all together valued at four hundred francs ci.......400
It seems that this bed corresponds to the one represented on one of the three watercolors of Charles Percier2 around 1800 preserved in the
cabinet des estampes at the Bibliothèque nationale discovered by Maria Teresa Caracciolo in 2014.
It is likely that the banker François-Dominique Mosselman must have ordered a bed to furnish the room
on the second floor of the hotel 7 of the rue du Mont Blanc, bought in 1808 from the Récamiers, a room of the hotel previously occupied by Juliette
by Juliette: her room, a real sanctuary where the whole of Paris was in a hurry.
It is also likely that he was able to address himself to the same cabinetmakers, the Jacob-brothers entity no longer exists since the death of
The company name of the Jacob house in 1808 is now Jacob-Desmalter, bringing together the father Georges
Jacob (1739-1814) and his son François-Honoré Georges Jacob (1770-1841) until 1813.
Percier's project was realized by Jacob Desmalter and corresponds to the bed in the former Grognot-Joinel collection 3.
In the room, the bed is placed on a platform, parallel to the wall between the torch and the statue of Chinard, in order to create a world as close as possible to that of
as close as possible to that of Juliette.
The room is described as such 4 : "In a room adjoining the previous one, lit by two cross windows overlooking the garden and
serving as a bedroom
a grid....
A fire in bronze and gilded copper prised the sum of eighty francs here....................................80
A clock in white marble and palm leaf, the movement of Revel hundred francs ci............100
Two loves in cookie estimated the sum of hundred and fifty francs........................................150
Two copper torches, a candlestick estimated the sum of twenty five francs ci........................25
A cabaret.......[.....]
A statue in white marble (the silence) on its pedestal of mahogany taken the sum of four hundred francs ci...........................
.........................................................................................400
A candelabra in mahogany wood gilded and bronzed surmounted of eight branches with a pineapple taken the sum of forty francs ci...
........................................................................................40
Two night tables in mahogany wood decorated each one of two syrenes and a lamp in gilded bronze the whole taken the sum of hundred
fifty francs ci.......................................................................150
A console shaped of cupboard with top of white marble with ornament in bronzed gold taken the sum of six hundred francs ci......
..............................................................................................600
A commode of ordinary mahogany with heads in copper of gold prsée the sum of sixty francs ci.....60
Four armchairs of mahogany with heads and inscriptions in ebony covered in purple cloth taken the sum of two hundred francs ci......
............................................................................................200
Four chairs matched to the armchairs taken the sum of one hundred and twenty francs..............................120
An old carpet taken the sum of forty francs here ...........................................................
A hanging composed of two parts, in the bottom of the room two door four curtains, pair of curtains the whole in thirteen
sixteenth purple and sixteenth apricot trimmed with bangs and draperies
together the sum of three hundred and thirty francs ci................................................................330
This same inventory succinctly describes another bed
"In a room on the second floor giving on the low court,
illuminated by a window and being used as room of hiv
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