Armchair with Archway in Relief and green cushion, focus on seat back

Armchair with Archway in Relief

French, Sixteenth Century

Date16th and 19th century

MediumWalnut

Dimensions51 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (130.8 x 61.6 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.5.114

Collection History

Chabrière-Arlès, Lyon and Paris. Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Furniture in The Frick Collection: Italian and French Renaissance, French 18th and 19th Centuries (Pt. I). Volume V. New York: The Frick Collection, 1992.

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