Georges Jacob
Georges Jacob (6 July 1739 – 5 July 1814) was one of the two most prominent Parisian master menuisiers. He produced carved, painted and gilded beds and seat furniture and upholstery work for the French royal châteaux, in the Neoclassical style that is associated with Louis XVI furniture.
Life and career
Jacob was born in Cheny, Burgundy. He arrived in Paris in 1754 and was apprenticed to the chairmaker Jean-Baptiste Lerouge where he met Louis Delanois, whose advanced neoclassical taste was to have a great influence on Jacob. He was received master 4 September 1765, presenting for his masterpiece a small chair of gilded wood, which survives.
Without marrying either the daughter or the widow of an established menuisier,
He retired in 1796, leaving his workshop in the hands of his sons, one of whom was François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter. When his other son died, Jacob returned from retirement to oversee the constant supply of furnishings for Napoleon's residences.
His descendant Hector Lefuel, son of the architect
Gallery
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A giltwood neoclassical chair, made circa 1775 and signed by Jacob
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Armchair by Jacob in the Château de Versailles (1781)
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Boudoir
See also
Notes
- ^ Jacob married in 1767 Jeanne-Germaine Loyer with whom he had five children.
References
- Getty Museum – Georges Jacob
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – side chair from a suite made for Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries, 1784
- Le siège français by Madeleine Jarry & Pierre Devinoy (excellent source material on Georges Jacob, his descendants and his business)
Further reading
- ISBN 0-87099-186-8.) (see index: p. 127-128; illustration: p. 50)
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