Console d'Applique Empire à Pieds Griffes En Acajou Attribuée à Louis Alexandre Bellangé

Sconce console with scrolled bracket feet, resting on a pedestal. Solid mahogany carved in the mass for the legs and mahogany veneer for the other surfaces. It is topped with white marble. Our console is a wall-mounted model, like the gilded wooden consoles of the 18th century (which is why we've placed removable white wooden cleats for the photo). A fine work in the Empire and Restoration style (circa 1820-1825), it is attributable to Louis Alexandre Bellangé (not stamped).

Louis Alexandre Bellangé came from a prestigious dynasty of Parisian cabinetmakers who supplied the crowned heads under all regimes from the First to the Second Empire. Louis Alexandre Bellangé joined forces with his father at the start of his career, before taking sole control of the family business. A number of elements in LA Bellangé's production betray the fact that his early work was stylistically subject to his father's taste, and that a late Empire style was still very much in evidence, with Percier and Fontaine's observance of forms that had been developed 10 or 20 years earlier. Our console is exactly in this powerful Empire style, still fashionable long after the fall of the Emperor. With slight variations, it reproduces the legs and scrolls found on the desks in Bellangé's catalog raisonné (Bellangé, ébénistes, une histoire du goût au 19e siècle by Sylvain Cordier LAB 27 and LAB 28 pages 518 and 519).

Excellent condition, our piece has just been delivered from the cabinetmaker, where it received a brand-new pad varnish.

Dimensions
Height 98.5cm
Width 130cm
Depth 50cm

Ref: DJTR41QZLM