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DiaporamaPair of “voyeuse” chairs
jean-baptiste claude sené (1748 – 1803)
Discover Jean-Baptiste Claude Sené, a renowned French furniture maker of the 18th century. Explore his exquisite Louis XVI-style creations for Versailles & Marie-Antoinette.
Musée Nissim de Camondo (Paris, France)
Discover the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris: a stunning tribute to 18th-century French decorative arts & a poignant family legacy tragically impacted by war. Explore opulent rooms filled with furniture, porcelain & tapestries.
Each chair back has a frieze of double scrolls and garlands of beads; a frieze of shells on the apron is interrupted at the corners by squares containing crescent shapes; the “Etruscan-style” saber legs, ending in hoofed feet, are adorned with festoons of beads. The chairs were originally upholstered in a toile de Jouy fabric with “a green flower and palm tree design on a white ground.” They were commissioned on August 4, 1789 for the Turkish drawing room of the Château de Montreuil at Versailles, the residence of King Louis XVI’s sister Madame Elisabeth. “Voyeuse” chairs were placed at card tables, where people could kneel on them to watch the games.
About this artwork
- Title: Pair of “voyeuse” chairs
- Artist: jean-baptiste claude sené
- Year: 1789
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Musée Nissim de Camondo
- Main color: Putty
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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