Jacob Frères, Stamped cabinet armchair of the Consulate period.

Superb cabinet armchair, called "en hémicycle", from the house of Jacob Frères (1796-1803).
This model, in carved mahogany and mahogany veneer, with its front and back legs in saber form, as well as its backrest surmounted by a large curved band, has the appearance of the antique "Klismos" chair.

On this very beautiful model of chair, the back is completed by openwork braces, punctuated in their intersections of pastilles with carved fleurons.
The front legs end in beautiful leonine paws in their original lacquer, recalling the muffles of the same feline sitting at the bow of the armrests.

This model, directly "plagiarized" from the antique following the discoveries during the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii, was designed by the ornamentalists Charles Percier, Pierre-Léonard Fontaine and de la MESANGERE.
Some great Parisian cabinetmakers of the late 18th century created their own version(s) of the Klismos chair: Georges Jacob (and later his sons), Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, Pierre-Benoît Marcion, Bernard Molitor and Jean-Baptiste Bernard Demay.

Superb state of conservation, restoration in art cabinetmaking.
Very beautiful embossed velvet Bleu Nuit, from the house Lelievre .

Stamped JACOB FRÈRES RUE MESLÉE ( april 1796 to october 1803)

End of Directoire period, Consulate.

Dimensions :
Height 92 cm
Width 61 cm
Depth 56 cm

Jacob Frères (1796-1803)
Based on "Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle de François de Salverte
After the death of their father, Georges Jacob, his sons Georges and François-Honoré continued the business together under the name "Jacob Frères".

Both were born in Paris, the first on May 26, 1768, the other on February 6, 1770.
In the company, which they managed together until the end of the Consulate, the elder was in charge of the commercial administration and the latter of the technical part.

The second son was called Jacob-Desmalter, after a property his father owned in Burgundy. Lover of his trade, very intelligent, very gifted in the arts, he was to acquire among the men of his generation a reputation comparable to that of Boulle in the seventeenth century and Riesener in the eighteenth. Luck served him from the beginning. General Bonaparte, on his return from Italy, ordered from the Jacob brothers, for his bedroom on the rue Chantereine, a curious military furniture, whose bed simulated a tent and whose seats simulated drums. These historical pieces, given to General Lefèvre-Desnouettes, were inherited by the Count of Harambure, who kept them in his castle in Boran (Oise).
Later the First Consul called upon the same cabinetmakers to refurnish the former royal residences devastated by the Revolution. After having produced until then works of a very sober taste, which were worth especially by the character and the purity of the style, the Jacobs began to manufacture pieces more richly decorated with sculptures and bronzes. Sometimes they also enhanced them with colored wood inlays and porcelain bas-reliefs imitating Wedgwood cookies. A gold medal was awarded to them at the Exhibition of the year IX, where they had presented in particular two chests of drawers decorated with cameos. They surpassed themselves in the following year's competition.
Their shipment included among other pieces, several tripods in perfume burner and a sumptuous console of carved and gilded wood, covered with an Italian mosaic.
These industrialists used the mark JACOB FRERES RUE MESLEE which they printed on two lines, in high and thin letters.
This mark can also be found on many pieces of furniture in the State collections, such as the desk built for the First Consul in the shape of a triumphal arch; it is among the souvenirs of Josephine at the Château de la Malmaison.
The eldest of the Jacob brothers died prematurely on 30 Vendemiaire Year XII (23 October 1803) and François-Honoré formed a new partnership with his father, under the name "Jacob Desmalter et Cie", with the stamp Jacob D Rue Meslée.

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