Mathieu Befort Jeune
Un par de Meubles d'Appui franceses montados en bronce dorado y ebonizados
£95,000
A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted and ebonised meubles d'appui, by Mathieu Béfort dit Béfort Jeune. Each has a vert maurin marble top above a cupboard...
Dimensiones
Height: 115 cm (46 in)Width: 83 cm (33 in)
Profundidad: 42 cm (17 in)
Descripción
A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted and ebonised meubles d’appui, by Mathieu Béfort dit Béfort Jeune.
Each has a vert maurin marble top above a cupboard door applied with large oval gilt-bronze medallions depicting Hercules and Orpheus, opening to an interior fitted with an adjustable shelf, each twice stamped ‘BEFORT JEUNE’, and mounts marked ‘BJ’
Francés, Circa 1850.
The two gilt-bronze oval medallions represent Orpheus in Hades and Hercules Chaining Cerberus and are after a design attributed to Augustin Pajou (1730–1809), the pair of are a type recorded to decorate a single cabinet at the Hôtel de Voyer d’Argenson as drawn by Sir William Chambers in 1769.
Fecha
Alrededor de 1850
Origen
Francia
Medio
Eboinised Wood & Gilt-Bronze
Firma
Stamped twice 'BEFORT JEUNE' | the mounts marked 'BJ'.
J. Draper, G. Scherf, Pajou sculpteur du Roi 1730-1809, cat. exp., Paris & New York, 1998, p. 164-165, fig. 100.
J. Harris, ‘Sir Williams Chambers and his Parisian Album’, dans Architectural History. The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, t. 6, 1963, pp. 54-90, p. 60, fig. 7