Jacob Frères / Château de Bois Préau, pair of Consulate period chairs.

A rare pair of Etruscan-style chairs in mahogany and mahogany veneer from the Consulate period.
The concave-ribbed backrest is exquisitely openwork and centered with a carved bar featuring a stylized scrolled palmette, a motif favored in the antique ornamental repertoire and revived in the late 18th and very early 19th centuries.
The straight seat rail rests on a base of great elegance: front and rear legs in the Etruscan style, reminiscent of ancient Klismos chairs.

Stamped JACOB FRÈRES RUE MESLÉE (1796-1803), this charming pair of chairs comes from the "Collection of Jean Claude LE FUEL," one of the most prestigious collectors of furniture and objets d'art from the First Empire. One of the chairs still has its label, attesting to its presence at the Château de Bois-Préau, annexed by Joséphine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte to the Château de Malmaison at the beginning of the 19th century.

Superb condition, with a French polish applied according to traditional methods.
Black horsehair fabric with geometric patterns in excellent condition.

Each chair is stamped JACOB FRÈRES RUE MESLÉE, legible in raking light. This stamp was used between 1796 and 1803.

Consulate period, 1799-1804.

Dimensions:
Height: 91 cm
Width: 43 cm
Depth: 46 cm
Seat depth: 38 cm

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