Period Armchair With Flat Back Signed Falconet

Magnificent Louis XV period armchair stamped Pierre Falconnet. FALCONET (pierre), master furniture carpenter in Paris, born in 1683, worked on rue de Cléry, under the name of Fidélité, between 1738 and 1750. His successor was his son Louis, who obtained master's degrees on 9 September 1743 and died around 1775. The widow of the latter kept the house until 1782. We owe to their workshop remarkable works bearing the stamp reproduced opposite. I saw this print on two large confessional armchairs, in the Regency style, equipped with removable cheeks fixed with nuts, which were at Mr. Parguez's house a few years ago. Madame Countess Henry de Gontaut-Biron keeps a beautiful screen of Falcon and son, richly carved with acanthus, laurel, flowers and pine cones, with a scrolled pediment crowned with a pomegranate; This piece of furniture was made towards the end of the reign of Louis XV for Mr. Ogier d'Ivry, grand auditor of France, at the Château d'Hénonville. Among other interesting pieces struck with the same mark, we can cite a chaise longue owned by Count Niel, a shepherdess in a gondola having appeared in the former collection of Mr. Jean Périer, of the Opéra-Comique, and a Louis XVI living room furniture which belonged before the war to MH de Mumm