6: Russian Furniture of the Late 18th - First Half of the 19th Centuries

Chair with a "French" back

Second quarter of the 19th century

St Petersburg

94x42x42 cm

Walnut, cane; carving, interlacing

From the Winter Palace

The arched shape of the back, prompted by interest in the Gothic, became common in Russian furniture-making from the late 1830s. In all probability such a design with fine openwork carving was borrowed from French art. The majority of such items were, however, produced for the Winter Palace by German craftsmen.