Lot n° 172
Estimation :
1200 - 1500
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 2 080EUR
Large armchair, stamped Jacob, from the Restoration
period... - Lot 172 - Daguerre
Large armchair, stamped Jacob, from the Restoration
period In mahogany and mahogany veneer, with a gondola backrest, tapered armrests, it rests on tapered feet at
the front, sabre at the back.
Handwritten label Mad la marquise de Montholon salon.
Accidents and restorations, uncompleted.
H. 91 L. 58 P. 49 cm 1,200/1,500
Jacob: stamp used between 1813 and 1825
Provenance: Albine Hélène de Vassal, born in Paris, came from a family of petty dress nobility belonging to the
good society of Montpellier and allied to the Cambaceres, Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès and herself being
cousins of first cousins.
Close to the furniture ordered by the Countess d'Osmond, this armchair takes up the backrest with its characteristic windings
.
On February 19, 1797, at the age of 17, she married Baron Louis Pierre Édouard Bignon, whom she divorced in 1799.
On August 18, 1800, at the age of 20, she married a Geneva financier, Baron Daniel Roger, future mayor of Gagny, of
which she had a son, Édouard, Count Roger du Nord, born in 1803, who became a close friend of Adolphe Thiers.
In 1808, she met Charles-Tristan de Montholon and left the marital home to live with him.
Baron Roger asked for and obtained a legal separation on 26 April 1809, then divorced on 26 May 1812.
The Marchioness of Montholon followed her husband who accompanied Napoleon during his exile to St. Helena, where her
fourth child, Napoleone Marie Hélène Charlotte, was born on June 18, 1816. Sent back to France in July 1819, she
died in Montpellier on 25 March 1848.
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