Collection Online as of August 7, 2020

Pair of Armchairs (Fauteuils)

c. 1765

Part of a set. See all set records

fabricated by

Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard

(French, 1797)

France, 18th century

Carved and gilded wood

Overall: 101.9 x 73.7 x 63.5 cm (40 1/8 x 29 x 25 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.423

Location

202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts

Provenance

(Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York)

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 156 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 156 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 188 archive.org

Exhibition history

Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

Neo-classicism: Style and Motif. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).