A Louis XV Carved, Parcel Gilt, and Paint Table - Signed Lebas

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A Louis XV Carved, Parcel Gilt, and Paint Decorated Table de Milieu, or side or center table, Jean-Baptiste Lebas (1729-c.1800), … Read more A Louis XV Carved, Parcel Gilt, and Paint Decorated Table de Milieu, or side or center table, Jean-Baptiste Lebas (1729-c.1800), Mid 18th Century. Surmounted by a shaped marble top. Stamped once 'I. LEBAS'. Jean-Baptiste Lebas, received maitre in 1756.


Jean-Baptiste Lebas (1729-1795), received his maitre designation on July 29, 1729. After working on rue de Cléry, in Saint-Esprit, he retired to rue Beauregard. Madame du Barry had him help with the installation of the Louveciennes pavilion.



Born in 1729, and died in 1795, Jean-Baptiste Lebas was the son of a craftsman, he was a juror of his community from 1769 to 1771.



Married very young to a daughter of the carpenter François Bouillette, Lebas had two sons, Barthelemy and Jean-Jacques, who were his students and collaborators. The eldest gained the master's degree on August 13, 1771, the other on November 7, 1772. Around 1781, they joined forces with a view to continuing their father's business and took LEBAS as their common brand, without the first initial. Jean-Jacques died on July 31, 1795, at the age of forty-five; his brother continued to live at rue de Cléry, no. 271, at the beginning of the 19th century.

Jean-Baptiste Lebas acquired a popularity justified by his talents. He provided the Count of Artois with magnificent living room furniture composed of two sofas and sixteen armchairs, offering oval trimmings on their backs in borders of singular richness and fantasy. This furniture was later purchased by Talleyrand for the Château de Valençay, where it served the King of Spain Ferdinand VII during his captivity in France. See less