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FOUR FAUTEUILS FROM THE CHATEAU D'EU
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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI CREAM AND GREY-PAINTED Jean-Jacques-Régis Cambacérès (1753-1824) was named archchancellor
FAUTEUILS of the Empire by Napoleon, and is most notably recognized as one of the
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE SENE, CIRCA 1775 authors for the Napoleonic Code, which served as the basis for much of
The oval padded back, seat and arms upholstered in Beauvais tapestry, all with French civil law. In 1800, he moved into the sumptuous Hôtel d'Elbeuf on
the inventory marks of the Château d'Eu, three stamped JB SENE (4) the old rue Saint-Nicaise, and furnished his residence with treasures from
the former Garde-Meuble de la Couronne and from revolutionary seizures.
$12,000-18,000
In 1808, he was bequeathed the Hôtel Molé by Napoleon, otherwise known
PROVENANCE: as the Hôtel de Cambacérès. On February 10, 1816 the residence was
Jean-Jacques-Régis Cambacérès, Hôtel de Cambacérès, purchased by Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, the Duchesse
Purchased together with the furniture by the Dowager Duchesse d’Orléans, d’Orléans. According to the terms of the sale contract, she became the
By descent, to her son King Louis-Philippe who moved the fauteuils to the
owner of the building and the entirety of the furnishings on the ground floor
Château d’Eu during the Restauration period.
of the hôtel for 580,000 francs. Upon her death in 1821, her son, the future
Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 7-8 December 1954, lot 205,
King Louis-Philippe, inherited the property and moved the contents of the
offered with six other armchairs and a canapé.
Hôtel de Cambacérès to the Château d'Eu. It is during this time that Louis-
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 282.
Philippe began to renovate and refurbish the the château, and when the
LITERATURE: present lot is recorded as being in the collection. Located in the Bresle valley
Musée Rodin, Le Faubourg Saint Germain, la rue Saint-Dominique, Paris,
between Normandy and Picardy, the Château d'Eu was reconstructed in
December 1984, p. 175, no. 292.
1578 by Henri le Balafri, duc de Guise. It was the home of the ducs de Maine
before ownership by the Orléans. During the French Revolution, the château
Jean-Baptiste Sené, maitre in 1769.
was seized and most of its furnishings either sold or destroyed, and was
restituted to the duchesse d'Orléans in 1814. Under his reign, the château
served as the summer residence of King Louis-Philippe.
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