Armchair (fauteuil à la reine). Culture: French, Paris. Dimensions: H. 46-1/2 x W. 28 x D. 23-1/4 in. (118.1 x 71.1 x 59.1 cm). Date: ca. 1690-1710.In the most recent catalogue of the furniture at Versailles,1 where two related armchairs à chssis (with drop-in seats) are on display in the refurbished bedroom of Louis XIV, this extraordinary chair model was described as "to be dated probably to the second quarter of the eighteenth century."2 This proposed dating was based on "the setting back of the armrest supports" and "the absence of a stretcher" between the legs.3 The chair's overall appearance, however, as well as the Italianate, trapezoidal form of the seat make an earlier date much more plausible. Also, the ornamentation and the minimally curved, rather straight-looking arms with their stylized-volute "hand knobs" betray the pervasive influence of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), director of the royal manufactory at the Gobelins and of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sc

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Armchair (fauteuil à la reine). Culture: French, Paris. Dimensions: H. 46-1/2 x W. 28 x D. 23-1/4 in. (118.1 x 71.1 x 59.1 cm). Date: ca. 1690-1710.In the most recent catalogue of the furniture at Versailles,1 where two related armchairs à chssis (with drop-in seats) are on display in the refurbished bedroom of Louis XIV, this extraordinary chair model was described as "to be dated probably to the second quarter of the eighteenth century."2 This proposed dating was based on "the setting back of the armrest supports" and "the absence of a stretcher" between the legs.3 The chair's overall appearance, however, as well as the Italianate, trapezoidal form of the seat make an earlier date much more plausible. Also, the ornamentation and the minimally curved, rather straight-looking arms with their stylized-volute "hand knobs" betray the pervasive influence of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), director of the royal manufactory at the Gobelins and of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sc

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