Fran\u00e7ois Honor\u00e9 Jacob (1770-1841) - Four large Empire-period mahogany armchairs circa 1810<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
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Stamped Salon furniture by Jacob D Rue Mesl\u00e9e, composed of four magnificent, wide, and rare mahogany and mahogany veneered armchairs, with simply molded flat backs, the armrests ending in a gilded palmette.<\/p>\n
Our armchairs stand on double-baluster front legs or Jacob's feet, with saber-shaped back legs.<\/p>\n
A splendid upholstery job has been undertaken, with picture backs and cushioned seats in a beautiful yellow fabric.<\/p>\n
Very fine French Empire period work stamped Jacob D Rue Mesl\u00e9e for Fran\u00e7ois Honor\u00e9 Jacob (1170-1841).<\/p>\n
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Sizes: H 38.58 Inches. - W 24.80 Inches. - D 21.25 Inches.<\/p>\n
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In very good condition, varnished in our workshops, new old-fashioned upholstery.<\/p>\n
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Fran\u00e7ois-Honor\u00e9-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770-1841) was the most successful Parisian cabinetmaker between 1796 and 1825.<\/p>\n
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Son of Georges Jacob who launched the Louis XVI style and the Directoire style, he joined forces in 1796 with his brother Georges Jacob Fils to create Jacob Fr\u00e8res Rue Mesl\u00e9e. His father had benefited from the orders of the royal family under the Ancien R\u00e9gime, the two brothers fulfilled the orders of the imperial family.<\/p>\n
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Using sketches by the painter Jacques-Louis David and the ornamentalists Percier and Fontaine, the brothers created furniture inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity to launch the Empire style.<\/p>\n
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Their style is characterized by a great quality of drawing, pure lines, original forms, the use of chiselled golden bronzes (made by Pierre-Philippe Thomire). In woodwork, he uses mahogany, gilded wood, and lacquered wood with, sometimes, ebony inlays and native woods such as maple or yew.<\/p>\n
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For Empress Josephine, they delivered furniture to the Malmaison castle, also at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, between 1807 and 1809, for the bedroom known as \"Napoleon I's\". They worked at the Ch\u00e2teau de Compi\u00e8gne. They deliver the imposing cradle of the King of Rome, the precious jewelry cabinet of Empress Marie-Louise, according to the drawings of Percier and Fontaine. We owe them the silver salon at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace.\n\nTranslated with www.DeepL.com\/Translator (free version)<\/p>\n
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Highly dependent on imperial orders, their workshop, which employed more than three hundred workers, went bankrupt in 1813 when the finances of the First Empire no longer allowed them to honor their debts. Jacob-Desmalter, however, managed to resurrect his business, and at the fall of the Empire, he returned to his father's Bourbon clientele to make furniture in the Restoration style. His son, Georges Alphonse (1799-1870), succeeded him in 1825.<\/p>\n
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He is buried in the P\u00e8re-Lachaise cemetery.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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