Suite of four Louis XVI fauteuils "à la reine" stamped N-T Porrot

Suite of four "à la reine" armchairs in beech molded, carved and lacquered with finely carved decoration. Medallion back, armrest brackets adorned with acanthus leaves, trapezoidal seat with elegantly curved side rails. Feet tapered, fluted and rudentés.

Stamped Noël-Toussaint PORROT (received as a master July 22, 1761).

Louis XVI period.

Old tapestry decorated with bouquets of flowers in frames of garlands of flowers and ribbons.

Used tapestry.

"Menuisier", Noël-Toussaint PORROT is received as a master in Paris in 1761.
His establishment was rue du Pont-aux-Choux, where he will exercise until the Revolution.

Noël-Toussaint Porrot will have a clear predilection for small Louis XV cabriolet armchairs, but will also produce Louis XVI chairs with various shapes, as well as sofas or day beds. His furniture is all neat, beautiful proportions, cleverly carved and very classic. Porrot will realize seats for the castle of Montgeoffroy.

Merchant, Porrot will also sell the works of several of his colleagues, will carve seats by Nicolas Delaporte, Marget dit Gillet or Lange de Chanvalon, and his stamp is even raised on some furniture cabinet. He will also collaborate with the gilding painter Desfontaines.


MUSEUMS :
. Paris, Musée Carnavalet – Cabriolet armchair, Louis XVI period (1785)
. Chavanges, église Saint-Georges – Cabriolet armchair, Louis XV period - listed as a Historic Monument on 4 September 1956.
. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum - Armchair

BIBLIOGRAPHY :
. Pierre Kjellberg, "Le Mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle", Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris 2008
. Comte François de Salverte, "Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle", Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1934
. Anne Forray-Carlier, "Le Mobilier du Musée Carnavalet", Éditions Faton, Paris, 2000
. "Catalogue des objets d'art du XVIIIe siècle, gravures, dessins anciens et modernes, aquarelles, gouaches, tableaux anciens, faïences et porcelaines anciennes, objets de vitrine, boites, étuis, émaux, sculptures, bronzes, pendules, lustres, sièges et meubles du XVIIIe siècle dont plusieurs portent les estampilles des maîtres-ébénistes J. Bircklé, L. Boudin, F. Schey, J. Schmitz, J.-B. Boulard, P. Brizard, J. Delaunay, C. Dieudonné, P. Dupré, P. Langlois, N. Petit, N.-T. Porrot, paravent en laque de Coromandel tapisseries des Flandres et d'Aubusson, tapis d'orient et d'Aubusson appartenant à Mademoiselle Jane Marnac", Lahure, 1935, MetMuseum libraries.