25\\? DISCOUNT UNTIL 11/30 - The Marquis de Lafayette sat on it - Louis XVI period

25% discount to apply until 30.11 - New price: €6900

Set of 4 armchairs in molded and carved wood.
With a square back, they rest on tapered, fluted, rudenté legs

Chassis in very good condition -
No original buttresses and straps.
The tapestry is also original but stained.

Stamp of Henri Jacob on 2 armchairs but There is a delivery label "The 4 armchairs are for the Marquis de La Salle".

Adrien Nicolas Piedefer, Marquis de La Salle, or Lasalle, Count of Offrémont, born February 11, 1735 in Paris, died October 23, 1818 in Paris, is a French general, playwright and novelist of the Revolution and the Empire. On July 14, 1789, he was appointed commander of the Parisian Militia and the troops then gathered in the capital under the orders of Lafayette, whose best friend he was.
They received each other at each other's homes as often as possible.

Promoted to Field Marshal on March 1, 1791, he was sent to Santo Domingo on June 1, 1792, to command the Western Province.
On January 12, 1793, he took over as interim governor general of the island when Esparbès was dismissed.
On his return in June 1794, he was arrested in Brest on the orders of the people's representative Prieur, and released on the following November 4.
He was then reinstated in his rank on July 14, 1795 and was admitted to retirement on December 14 of the same year.

Provenance: family of descendants

Dimensions
H: 87
W: 56
D: 49

Henri Jacob, a skilled carpenter-cabinetmaker, had no kinship with the JACOB "dynasty".

As soon as he became a Master in 1779, he moved into Georges Jacob's neighborhood and began to plagiarize his famous colleague's models.

He succeeded with such virtuosity that he also obtained orders from the Court.

This Master left his stamp on seats of excellent quality that almost always imitate the creations of his namesake.
The Palace of Fontainebleau preserves one of his best works.
We can see various seats signed by him in the National Archives, in the Museums of Decorative Arts in Paris, Strasbourg and Berlin

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