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After Jules Degoullons
A Finely Carved Giltwood Centre Table
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A Finely Carved Louis XIV/Regence Style Giltwood Centre Table with A Rare Patricia Green Italian Marble Top After the Model by Jules Degoullons.This...
Dimensions
Height: 81 cm (32 in)Width: 156 cm (62 in)
Depth: 92 cm (37 in)
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A Finely Carved Louis XIV/Regence Style Giltwood Centre Table with A Rare Patricia Green Italian Marble Top After the Model by Jules Degoullons.
This impressive centre table is after the celebrated giltwood ‘table a gibier’ or double-sided console table made circa 1713 for the Château de Bercy by Jules Degoullons (ca. 1671–1737) now in the Louvre, Paris (Louvre Accession No. OA 5049).
French, Circa 1900.
The Château de Bercy, east of Paris, was built by François Le Vau for Charles-Henri I de Malon de Bercy in 1658. His son Charles-Henri II de Malon de Bercy (1678-1742), after marrying the daughter of the Contrôleur Général des Finances, became superintendant des Finances, which enabled him to commission sculptors from the Société pour les Bâtiments du Roi, to modernize the château’s furnishings in 1713-14. Among the most important sculptors and designers to work on the Chateau were Jules Degoullons, André and Matthieu Legoupil, Marin Bellan, and Pierre Taupin who were instrumental in the development of the Regence style.
Due to the expansion of Paris in the 19th century, the château was pulled down in 1860 and its contents auctioned over four days. Degoullons console was purchased on behalf of Napoléon III, and transferred to the Louvre, assigned from the Mobilier national in 1901.
Table d’applique 1710 / 1715, Attributed to Jules Degoullons, Musée du Louvre, OA 5049 – https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010114578 – https://collections.louvre.fr/CGU
Maison Krieger exhibited a copy of the Degoullons table at the Salon des industries du mobilier in 1902, illustrated in an old black and white photo taken from la revue, “Les Arts”, 1st October 1902.
Grande Table De Salon Louis XV, Maison Krieger, exhibited at the Salon des industries du mobilier, Paris 1902. Illustrated in la revue, “Les Arts”, October 1902.
The design for the Château de Bercy table proved popular throughout the late nineteenth century, and following its admission to the Louvre examples were made by some of the most important makers of the day including Fourdinois, Krieger and François Linke who supplied a model to the Grosvenor Square home of Elias Meyer in 1910.
A model of the Degoullons table supplied by François Linke for Ellias Meyer’s drawing room, 16 Grosvenor Square, London, Circa 1910. Photo courtesy Linke Archive / Christopher Payne.
The present table is illustrated by Christopher Payne in Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century, Editions Monelle Hayot (Saint-Remy-en-l’Eau), 2018; p. 135.
Date
Circa 1900
Origin
France
Medium
Carved Giltwood
Jules Degoullons (c.1671 – 1738)
Jules Degoullons was an influential French sculptor and wood-carver who from 1698 was employed as a sculpteur de roi. He collaborated with Jacques Verberckt on decorations at Versailles and with André and Mathieu Legoupil, Marin Bellan and Pierre Taupin at château de Bercy.
De Ricci, Seymour. Louis XIV et Régence, (Paris), 1929; p. 72.
Pallot, B. G. B. Le mobilier du Louvre, t.2, (Paris), 1993; pp. 36-39.
Payne, Christopher. François Linke, 1855 – 1946, The Belle Époque of French Furniture, Antique Collectors’ Club, (Woodbridge, UK), 2005; p. 160-161, pl 171-2; p. 244-245, pl. 259,260.
Payne, Christopher. Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century, Editions Monelle Hayot (Saint-Remy-en-l’Eau), 2018; p. 135.
