Pair of armchairs
(c. 1700)
- Medium
- Boxwood (Buxus sp.), wool velvet, (other materials)
- Measurements
- (a) 115.0 × 82.0 × 84.0 cm
(b) 117.0 × 83.0 × 78.0 cm - Place/s of Execution
- Venice, Italy
- Accession Number
- 2012.268.a-b
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 2012
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Andrea Brustolon was a Venetian sculptor and woodcarver active during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He worked in an ornate late Baroque style and is most famous for his ecclesiastical wood carving. His secular furniture has proved harder to identify, though there are several examples in the Ca’ Rezzonico, made for the Venetian aristocracy. This pair of armchairs was part of a set of ten and was possibly carved for the Palazzo Fini, Venice. During the early nineteenth century the armchairs were probably in Lowther Castle, England. They were purchased by Edward Jones Schollick who emigrated to Australia in 1874.