Minneapolis Institute of Art

Duchesse d'enfant brisée (child’s chair)

Georges Jacob

Date

c. 1780

Medium

Wood, gilt (modern upholstery)

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Georges Jacob, one of the foremost cabinet and chair makers in France in the last quarter of the 1700s, furnished the apartments of the nobility and the royal family of France. This elegant early Neoclassical daybed with its separate ottoman, stamped by Jacob on the frame, was probably commissioned for a child or a very small adult. Europe

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