Each with oval padded back, arms and seat upholstered à chassis in green embossed-velvet, the channelled slightly incurved back carved with spiralling ribbon, the armrests with scroll terminals and inswept supports, above a conformingly-carved seatrail, on roundel-headed fluted cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet, each frontrail stamped 'DELANOIS'
34³⁄₄ in. (88 cm.) high; 25 in. (64 cm.) wide; 20¹⁄₂ in. (52 cm.) deep

This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’s will inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storage are set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere. Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com. If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Lots are not available for collection at weekends.
-

Conditions of Sale
FAQs
This lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

Brought to you by

Lot Essay

Louis Delanois, maître in 1761.

Louis Delanois was one of the most important menuisiers of the 1760's and 1770's, and was among the first to embrace the neo-classical style fashionable among avant-garde collectors of the time. He supplied extensively to marchands-tapissiers, but also numbered among his clients members of the aristocracy with progressive taste, such as the prince de Condé and Mme du Barry. One of his most important commissions was for the King of Poland in 1768-70, when he supplied a significant amount of seat-furniture after striking neo-classical designs by Jean-Louis Prieur (c.1725-c.1785). These included designs for chairs with medallion backs and scrolling arm-supports, which are perhaps the most characteristic feature of the present fauteuils. These so-called 'Fauteuils oval sculpté à la Grec' first appear in Delanois’ ledger on 28 June 1768, when a large consignment was supplied to the Comte Grimod d'Orsay (S. Eriksen, Louis Delanois, Paris, 1968, p. 32 and p. 52 and S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, p. 337 and p. 392, fig. 165 and figs. 411-414).
An identical pair of fauteuils from the Galerie Gismondi Collection, Paris appear illustrated in B. Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth-Century France, Paris, 1989, p. 185.