Resumen de Deux projets pour le fauteuil du trône de Louis XVIII par Dugourc et Saint-Ange
Documents in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, shed new light on Louis XVIII's throne in the Tuileries, Paris. The collection of sketches and watercolors is, very probably, from the studio of father-and-son cabinetmakers Pierre-Antoine and Louis-Alexandre Bellangé. Given that the throne was destroyed following the invasion of the palace in 1848, the images in the documents provide new information about it. A number of sketches in the documents also suggest that not only were the Bellangé and the Jacob-Desmalter studios competing for the commission, but that different ornamentalists were also competing for it.
