BOUCAULT, Jean (1705-1786-01-22, Reine armchair (username), 1765. Sculpted beech, redoority; garnish: tapestry of Aubusson. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. The last fifteen years of the reign of Louis XV are the scene of a renewal of forms and decorative vocabulary. Abandoning the rocky style, some carpenters offer seats of a new style, known as "transition". Thus, this pair of queen's armchairs retains a structure characteristic of the Louis XV style with its flat backrest and its circular seat. However, the lowered hanger file is raidi. It extends to the seat with a slight drop in its l
BOUCAULT, Jean (1705-1786-01-22, Reine armchair (username), 1765. Sculpted beech, redoority; garnish: tapestry of Aubusson. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. The last fifteen years of the reign of Louis XV are the scene of a renewal of forms and decorative vocabulary. Abandoning the rocky style, some carpenters offer seats of a new style, known as "transition". Thus, this pair of queen's armchairs retains a structure characteristic of the Louis XV style with its flat backrest and its circular seat. However, the lowered hanger file is raidi. It extends to the seat with a slight drop in its lower part. Although it comes back, supporters and consoles stiffen. The upper line of the belt abandons the curve for strict rigidity, while the movement of the lower line stretches to form two lowered arcs which meet in the center in two fine scrolls framing a mirror. If the feet keep a curved structure, the fluted facade flourishes in two small voltues flattened at the upper part to support a square motif, called to become the Louis XVI connection. At their base, the Greek motif overlooks a finish in doe hoof. Although a little clumsy in the general stiffening of the lines, these seats offer solutions subsequently developed by Louis Delanois (1731-1792), Nicolas Heurtaut (1720-1771) or Sulpice Brizard (1733-after 1796). The files are garnished with old tapestries from Aubusson, made from boxes by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755). They illustrate two fables of the fountain the monkey and the cat (MB 398-2) and the fox and the stork (MB 398-1). These in full topping replaced that of original checkered before the entrance to the seats at the Carnavalet museum.
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