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Two Winged Putti Holding a Garland and A Chair Leg, from The Franco-Italian Album

Artist and architect Sir William Chambers British, born Sweden

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Chambers, an architect, copied various details he saw at Versailles. The winged putti come from the ceiling of the Hercules Salon, completed in 1736 by François Le Moyne, painter to the king. The putti share the sheet with a chair leg surmounted by a lion mask at the knee, part of the gilt-wood throne of Louis XV. No longer extant, the rococo throne had been designed by the brothers Slodtz, sculptors at the Menus Plaisirs (the department in charge of all preparations for events and ceremonies at court), and placed in the Apollo Salon in 1743.

Two Winged Putti Holding a Garland and A Chair Leg, from The Franco-Italian Album, Sir William Chambers (British (born Sweden), Göteborg 1723–1796 London), Pen and ink, graphite and gray wash on paper; binding: full vellum binding with paper textblock

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