Armchair (part of a set)

Frame by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot
Tapestry by Beauvais
after designs by Jean-Baptiste Oudry French

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This piece is part of a set of twelve armchairs and two settees ordered in Paris in 1753 by Baron Johann Ernst Bernstorff, Danish ambassador to the court of Versailles between 1744 and 1751. After returning to Denmark, Bernstorff commissioned this seat furniture for the tapestry room of his new residence in Copenhagen that was hung with four wall tapestries of the Amours des Dieux series woven at the Beauvais Manufactory. This chair illustrates how French furniture and furnishings were imported all over Europe for the enrichment of palaces and mansions far from Paris. The tapestry covers are woven with animal and bird subjects after designs by the painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755).

Armchair (part of a set), Frame by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot (1706–1776, warden 1750/52), Carved and gilded beech; wool and silk tapestry, French, Paris

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Frame: 35.145.6; back upholstery: 35.145.27a; Seat upholstery: 35.145.22b; armrest upholstery: 35.145.21c-d

Armchair (part of a set), Frame by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot (1706–1776, warden 1750/52), Carved and gilded beech; wool and silk tapestry, French, Paris
Armchair (part of a set), Frame by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot (1706–1776, warden 1750/52), Carved and gilded beech; wool and silk tapestry, French, Paris

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