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French or British 19th Century chairmaker and Gobelins Tapestry Factory after cartoons by Louis Tessier

Armchair, probably c. 1830/1850

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series Title

Suite of Tapestry-covered Furniture (un meuble)

Dimensions

overall: 109.8 x 82 x 82.4 cm (43 1/4 x 32 5/16 x 32 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.434

Artists / Makers

Gobelins Tapestry Factory (weaver) est. 1662

French 19th Century (cabinetmaker)

British 19th Century (cabinetmaker)

Louis Tessier (artist after) French, c. 1719 - 1781

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Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, New York); purchased 1905 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 18, as Louis XV, about 1770, upholstered with tapestry from the Royal Manufactory of Beauvais.

1993: Standen, Edith A. "Madame de Pompadour's Gobelins Tapestries." Studies in the History of Art 42 (1993): 25-26, repro. no. 16.