ANTOINE KRIEGER (c.1826-c.1880)

7648

Giltwood,

70.00 cm wide   113.00 cm high   60.00 cm deep

27.56 inches wide  44.49 inches high  23.62 inches deep

Antoine Krieger, born in Alsace on June 5, 1804, set up shop in the Faubourg Sainte-Antoine (the furniture-making district of Paris) in 1826 and was married there in 1829. The marriage of his two daughters, one in 1849 to the cabinet-maker Claude-Julien Cosse, and the other in 1853 to the merchant Henry Racault, increased his prosperity. He then formed a partnership with his sons-in-law one of whom was to retire in 1858 and the other in 1870. At that date, the furniture and tapestry-making establishment, situated at 76 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, was extended to include no. 74 of the same street. A grandson by marriage became one of the partners in 1880. From 1870 to 1955, when it ceded from the register of commerce, the company remained a family affair, in the hands of the Damon family which descended from Antoine Krieger's wife. Antoine Krieger, who retired from the company in 1860, and his son-in-law Cosse, on their deaths, respectively in 1869 and 1883, left considerable property. Cosse had banked upon the transformation of Paris by Haussmann by constructing an apartment building situated on the boulevard Voltaire. Maison Krieger won prizes at the Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie in 1849 and in the Universal Exhibitions of 1851 and 1855.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris exhibits the original Régence model which Krieger used as the pattern for these armchairs, and may be seen in Pallot’s ‘Art of the Chair in Eighteenth Century France’, published by Gismondi in 1989.

Excellent

Constructed in gilt wood, rising from channelled cabriole front and rear legs, with scrolled toes; the seat front rails of serpentine form, centred about coquilles, with foliate carvings; the shepherd’s crook padded arms joining the seat uprights, leading to serpentine toprails adorned with further foliates; upholstered seats and backs, and stamped to the frames by the makers, Krieger of Paris.

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