From 06.10 to 30.11 - REMISE 25\% - Stamped "i Gourdin" - Beau Fauteuil A La Reine - XVIIIème

From 06.10 to 30.11 - 25% DISCOUNT - New price:: € 1875.00

Beautiful armchair à la reine in patinated, carved and molded walnut.
The arm brackets are narrowed in a whiplash shape.
Covered with silk in good condition.
Stamped Jean-Baptiste Gourdin

Provenance: Antiquités G. DIEBOLD, purchased 1977

H.: 93cm - W.: 67cm - D.: 55cm

18th century

Jean-Baptiste GOURDIN (1723-1781)
Born into a family of Parisian carpenters, Jean-Baptiste Gourdin was the eldest son of Jean Gourdin, known as Père Gourdin. Unlike most 18th-century woodworkers, he was not apprenticed to a master carpenter, but to the sculptor Toussaint Foliot, from 1736 to 1741.
He then returned to his father's workshop from 1741 to 1746. Privileged by his training with these two masters, he was admitted to the carpenters' guild in 1747, even though he had not yet completed his apprenticeship. In 1746, he married Marie-Françoise Ferret, daughter of master carpenter Claude Ferret. On Ferret's death, Jean-Baptiste Gourdin inherited his store, also located on rue de Cléry. He opened his own workshop and took on apprentices, eventually buying the whole house in 1761 under the "Nom de Jésus" sign, next to his father's.
Gourdin worked for a more eclectic clientele than his father's, made up of numerous European financiers. His most famous clients included, on a fairly regular basis, the Prince de Soubise, Duc de Rohan, and the Marquis de Bellevaux; but his most illustrious client was undoubtedly the Dauphine Marie-Antoinette, when she moved to court.
 

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