Large pair of armchairs stamped Boulard, Louis XVI period

In molded and carved grey-lacquered beech, richly carved with laurel garlands on the basket-handle backs. The armrests and brackets are finished and highlighted with scrolls of piaster, laurel and acanthus leaves. The wide seat belts are carved with an interlacing frieze. Fluted tapered legs finished with acanthus leaves.

Jean-Baptiste Boulard (circa 1725-1789), received Master on April 17, 1755
This excellent chair carpenter, who lived on rue de Cléry, is best known as an attaché to the Crown's furniture storage service, for whom he worked from 1777 onwards. In other words, his work is essentially in the Louis XVI style. This was the period when, under the high guidance of the sculptor Hauré, who directed all the garde-meuble's programs, royal commissions occupied a large part of his time.