Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) and Fire Screen
This armchair and fire screen belong to a set of furniture purchased in Paris to furnish the spacious apartment arranged for Gustav III of Sweden on the ground floor of the South Wing at Versailles. Normally reserved for the duchesse de Bourbon, the apartment was remodeled to comprise an antechamber, a dining room, a corridor, a reception room, a bedchamber, and a cabinet. How often the distinguished visitor used the apartment is not clear; most nights he returned to Paris.
Artwork Details
- Title: Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) and Fire Screen
- Maker: Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard (French, 1723–1798, master 1752)
- Date: 1777–78
- Medium: Carved and gilded walnut; covered in lampas brocade (modern)
- Dimensions: Armchair: 41 1/8 × 28 1/16 × 28 9/16 in. (104.5 × 71.3 × 72.5 cm)
Fire Screen: 49 5/8 × 33 1/16 × 22 5/16 in. (126 × 84 × 56.6 cm) - Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
- Credit Line: Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (OA 9496 and OA 9370 / VMB 14942)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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