From the second Turkish Cabinet of the Count d’Artois, brother of Louis XVI, at the Château de Versailles François Rémond (1747-1812), bronzesmith 1782 Chased and gilt bronze Versailles, Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, inv. OA 5315 et 5315 bis
The general taste for Turqueries in the 1770-1780s inspired the creation of precious “Turkish boudoirs” in royal residences illustrating a fantasised Orient. If the picturesque figures of the ostrich and the camel, whose realism is due to the extraordinary quality of the chasing, evoke the exoticism of distant lands, they are also a reminder that these animals could be found at the Royal Menagerie in Versailles. The pearl necklace motifs, sculpted in the wood of the chair, were also a recurrent feature of these Turqueries.
