A pair of Louis XVI Painted Bergeres By Adrien Pierre Dupain
£6,500
A pair of Louis XVI painted walnut bergeres, each with channelled and stop-fluted frames, with a shaped back, raised curved top-rail and two upturned bellflower finials, with scrolled arms, on stop-fluted tapering legs headed by paterae, terminating in peg feet. Each stamped: ‘A.P. DUPAIN’ to the underside of the seat rail
Height 106 cm (41.5 inches)
Width 74 cm (29 inches)
Depth 69 cm (27 inches)
French. Circa 1780
Adrien Pierre Dupain recu maître en 1772.
The offered pair are very similar to the bergère also stamped Dupain, delivered to Bonnefoy du Plan for Marie Antoinette’s furniture repository. Now kept at Versaille (illustrated)
Further closely related examples of Louis XVI period seat furniture executed by Dupain appear illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIIIeme Siecle, 1989, Paris, pp.’s 288-289
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