Gendarme-cap mantel screen with sliding frame in moulded, ca - Lot 62

Gendarme-cap mantel screen with sliding frame in moulded, carved and gilded walnut. . It is adorned with a large frieze of ovals and twisted ribbons. The front of the sliding frame is covered with an Aubusson tapestry featuring a large floral bouquet surrounded by laurel and oak stems. The reverse is covered with jaconas. The ensemble rests on curved runners terminating in scrolls and carved with a frieze of piastres. . Stamped : L DELANOIS under the lower crosspiece. Louis DELANOIS (1731 -1792). Appointed Master on July 27, 1761. Paris. Louis XVI period . H_108 cm L_68 cm. Slight accidents to the gilded decoration. Wear to the tapestry. The finesse, elegance and originality of his productions attracted fashionable dealers and several prominent figures, including the Prince de Beauvau and the Count d'Orsay. His merits earned him the protection of Mme du Barry. The Countess had turned to him at the very beginning of her fortune to furnish the apartment she had just obtained in the Château de Fontainebleau. From then on, she attached him to her service, in collaboration with the sculptor Guichard and the gilder Cagny. While he was busy with this work, Delanois undertook, with the help of sculptor Coulonjon, some very fine seating commissioned by the King of Poland, Stanislas II Poniatowski. Between 1770 and 1777, he delivered a large number of works to the Prince de Condé, for the Palais Bourbon, the Château de Chantilly and the Prince's other residences in Versailles, Fontainebleau and Vanves. The Comte d'Artois and the Duc de Chartres were also his clients, along with the Cardinal de Rochechouart, the Prince de Rohan-Guémené, Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Vicomte Choiseul, the Marquise d'Hautefort and the President Molé. He also had correspondents in the provinces and abroad, such as Choné and Satou in St. Petersburg, through whom he sold 15,000 livres worth of merchandise. Expert: Stéphane Pépe.