With arched rectangular back, sides and circular seat upholstered in close-nailed leather, the molded frame headed by foliate finials, on cabriole legs ending in scroll toes, stamped C.CHEVIGNY
Claude Chevigny, maître in 1768.

The Keck Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1991, lot 268.

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The ébéniste Claude Chevigny worked from the rue de Cléry, Paris, during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and specialized in luxury seat furniture for the French nobility. Among his notable commissions are those for the Château de Chanteloup for the duc de Choiseul and the Château de Modave in Belgium for the duc de Montmorency.