Pair of side chairs (chaises à la reine)

Michel Gourdin French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 539

The top rail of the back and front rail of the seat are carved with three flowers flanked by branches of flowers and leaves. Both Michel and Jean-Baptiste Gourdin used the motif of a flower at each front corner above a split stem running down the fore edge of the front leg with an acanthus leaf on the foot. Other chairs by Michel Gourdin are in the Louvre, the Bouvier Collection in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris; the Wallace Collection, London; Windsor Castle; and the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York.

[Bill Rieder, 1984]

Pair of side chairs (chaises à la reine), Michel Gourdin (French, master 1752, died after 1777), Carved and gilded beechwood, 18th century lavender brocaded silk upholstery (not original), French

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Pair of side chairs (chaises à la reine), Michel Gourdin (French, master 1752, died after 1777), Carved and gilded beechwood, 18th century lavender brocaded silk upholstery (not original), French
Pair of side chairs (chaises à la reine), Michel Gourdin (French, master 1752, died after 1777), Carved and gilded beechwood, 18th century lavender brocaded silk upholstery (not original), French

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