Pierre Benoit Marcion - imperial chair delivered for Compiègne in 1808

This chair is available in Paris, free delivery for the capital and its suburbs; 60 euros for the rest of France.

Pierre Benoît Marcion
chaise impériale
relacquered wood, pegged joints
dimensions :
Paris, circa 1808

Chaise à la Reine (Queen's chair), resting on tapered, ringed front legs ending in balls; saber-shaped back legs. The belt is molded, as is the backrest. The connecting thimbles have a rosette in a thimble.
This chair bears the hot-iron mark of the Garde-Meuble Royal under the Restoration, as well as its original delivery label and various 19th-century Compiègne inventory numbers.

Imperial production and traceability
This chair was part of an important delivery by Pierre-Benoît Marcion around 1808. This atypical model does not feature the earlier double-baluster legs. Marcion's authorship of this model is evident from the fact that he delivered six virtually identical chairs for the salon of the double Prince's apartment, occupied successively by the Queen of Spain, Marie-Louise in 1808, Jérôme in 1810 and finally Prince Murat. Under the Restoration, this apartment was attributed to the Duchesse d'Angoulême...
This chair takes on the characteristics of a noble delivery, while being attributed to a master apartment in the Grandes Ecuries.
It is described as follows:
1812, n°4 appartement de maître aux grandes écuries
1817, under number 13132: 1 bergère 2 fauteuils et 4 chaises garnis de velours d'Utrecht jaune au Cabinet de travail des petites écuries
1833, under number 6921: striped yellow velvet salon on the entresol above the porcelain, apartment no. 110.
The other inventories are unfortunately illegible. This chair was part of the Domaines sales during the Third Republic, when the château was administered by the Mobilier National.

Compiègne Palace
A royal, then imperial residence, Ange-Jacques Gabriel's fittings under Louis XV are clearly visible. After falling into disuse under Louis XVI and the Revolution, Napoleon I ordered an ambitious rehabilitation campaign from 1807 onwards, under the direction of architect Louis-Martin Berthault.
Between 1870 and 1927, the estate came under the administration of the Mobilier National.

Condition report:
Fully restored chair. Reupholstered, seat in animal and vegetable hair, struck blue velvet by Casal and alternating nail finish on gold-faux braid, to recall the atmosphere of the period.

Work in comparison :
in. Marcion ébéniste de Napoléon by Jean-Pierre Planchon, Monelle Hayot edition, p. 163 under number 111.

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