细节 A LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILBY JEAN BOUCAULT, CIRCA 1770The shaped pearl-moulded back with foliate decoration issuing two padded arms terminating in scrolls on spirally fluted supports wrapped in acanthus leaves, the shaped seat-rail with foliate and pearl moulding on four spirally-fluted tapering legs wrapped in acanthus leaves, on toupie feet, the padded back, arms and seat cushion upholstered in green velvet, stamped twice J. BOUCAULT, with two crowned W inventory brands for the château de Versailles37 1/2 in. (95 cm.) high; 27 in. (69 cm.) wide; 30 1/2 in. (77 cm.) deep 来源 Delivered in 1783 by Claude-François Capin to Louis Charles-Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil, for his apartment in château de Versailles, possibly furnishing the apartment when previously occupied by the duc de Choiseul.Anonymous sale, Christophe Morel, Drouot, Paris, 21 May 2014, lot 247 (as Louis XVI Style). 出版 COMPARATIVE LITERATUREC. Baulez, Il Luigi Il Mobile francese dal Louis XVI allArt Deco, Milan 1981, p. 11.F.P. Victoria and Son, The Masterchair, Makers Art, France 1710-1800, Galerie Victoria, New York, 1984, n° 24.B.G.B. Pallot, LArt du siège au XVIIIème siècle en France, 1987, p. 192.C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993, p. 67.W.-R. Newton, Lespace du Roi. La Cour de France au château de Versailles, 1682-1789, 2000, pp. 451-452. 注意事项 This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’swill inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storageare set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere.Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only.Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com.If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm.Lots are not available for collection at weekends. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.Jean Boucault, maître in 1728.This important fauteuil by Jean Boucault was delivered in 1783 to Versailles for the appartement of the Baron de Breteuil, Secrétaire d’Etat à la Maison du Roi. It bears the fire crowned brand ‘W’ which was applied on furniture supplied for the château de Versailles by the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne (Royal wardrobe). Based on Christian Baulez' extensive research (cat. Steinitz, Paris, 2016, pp. 306-313), the history of this Royal fauteuil has been fully traced. It was part of a larger set supplied by the tapissier ordinaire du Roi Claude-François Capin for the use of Louis XVI’s newly appointed minister: Louis-Charles-Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil (1730-1807). The fauteuil and its suite was placed on the first floor of the North wing of the château, the so-called aile des Ministres, in the apartment which had been previously occupied and decorated twenty years earlier by duc de Choiseul. It is plausible that the set, as suggested by M. Baulez, was acquired for Breteuil directly from Choiseul. The ensemble formerly comprised: ‘un meuble de lampas composé d’une tapisserie avec bordure, d’un grand canapé en confident, d’un tête-à-tête à carreau, de deux bergères à la reine, de six fauteuils, de quatre chaises, de quatre rideaux en huit parties de lampas’, estimated 23 350 livres (Arch. Nat. O1 3534). The set was subsequently extended with further seats as indicated in the 1793 Versailles’ inventory, and sold during the Revolutionary sales to citoyen Gastinel on the 5672 auction day on the 25 November 1793 for 1610 livres (Arch. Yvelines, II Q 71). The set was then dispersed in various collections and a large group reappeared in 1885 in the collection sale of comte Jacques de la Béraudière, lot 902 : ‘un beau meuble de salon du temps de Louis XVI, en bois sculpté et doré, à feuilles et perles et à pieds cannelés en spirale. Il est couvert de lampas du temps à fleurs blanches sur fond ponceau et se compose d’un grand canapé cintré avec siège aux angles, de deux marquises et de quatre chaises. Chaque siège est formé d’un coussin rapporté et le canapé d’un rouleau et de deux coussins. Les bois portent comme marque le nom frappé de I. Boucault et un W surmonté d’une couronne brûlé au fer’. Several seats from this set have survived and are now recorded in public and private collections: - two marquises sold at Galerie Charpentier, 6 April 1954: one currently in the château de Versailles (inv. Vmb. 14357), the other belongs to the Fondation F. Bemberg. - J. Paul Getty acquired in 1971 two of the four chaises from the set which are now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (sold from the Anna Thomson Dodge collection, Christie’s, New York, 24 June 1971, lot 65; Getty Museum inv. 71.DA.92). Another chair is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City (inv. 32-191/10). - a pair of bergères was sold from the Juan de Beistegui collection at Christie’s, Paris, 10 September 2018, lot 71. A 19th century chauffeuse modelled after the Breteuil Boucault suite was sold from the collection of Hubert de Givenchy, Christie’s, Paris, 16 June 2022, lot 159.