LOUIS HESTAUX – TRIANGULAR DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
TRIANGULAR DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
Carved and engraved wood, depicting a bather emerging from the water
Length: 21 cm.
HESTAUX Louis (1858-1919)
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LOUIS HESTAUX – SIDEBOARD, CIRCA 1900-1910
SIDEBOARD, CIRCA 1900-1910
Rectangular low sideboard in fruitwood. The doors are decorated with molded panels carved in low relief with a wooded lakeside landscape, framed with carved branches. The panels are incised with the silhouette of a seated wolf—seen from behind on one panel, and from the front on the other. The drawer is bordered by a carved vegetal pattern. The oval keyhole are made of engraved metal with foliage.
Height: 93.5 cm.
Width: 143 cm.
Depth: 52 cm.
Provenance
From the descendants of Louis Hestaux
EMILE GALLE – LOUIS HESTAUX – VASE, 1889-1900
VASE, 1889-1900
Faience
After a design by Louis Hestaux
Signed in the mould
Height: 14.3 cm.
LOUIS HESTAUX – TRAY, CIRCA 1900
TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Carved pearwood in the shape of a tree with foliage and branches above leaves and fruits
Signed
43 cm. long
Together with Victor Prouvé, Louis Hestaux was Emile Gallé’s closest collaborator
LOUIS HESTAUX – “VALLEE DE LA MOSELLE, MESSEIN”
“VALLEE DE LA MOSELLE, MESSEIN”
Oil on panel
Carved fruit wood frame
Label at the back: Vallée de la Moselle, Société Lorraine des Amis des Arts, Expositon du centenaire 1833 – 1933, désignation: Messein, appartenant à Me Hestaux demeurant à Nancy rue des Tiercelins
21 x 40 cm.
With the frame: 30 x 48 cm.
Exhibition
Louis Hestaux / Collaborateur de Gallé, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 1982, n.127
Metz…Nancy / Nancy…Metz, une histoire de frontière 1861-1909, Metz, musées de la Cour d’Or
18 December 1999 – 12 March 2000, ill. p. 183, n. 200
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist’s family
EMILE GALLE – LOUIS HESTAUX – RARE CHAIR IN SCULPTED WALNUT, CIRCA 1900
RARE CHAIR IN SCULPTED WALNUT, CIRCA 1900
After the design by Louis Hestaux
94 cm. high
Bibliography
Fin de siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman collection, New York, Abbeville Press, p. 75
Gallé furniture, Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2012, ill. p. 259
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Benedict Silverman, New York
LOUIS HESTAUX – CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900
CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Mother-of-pearl inlay decorated with five bathers
22.5 x 54.5 cm.
Exhibition
Exposition de l’Ecole de Nancy, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1903
Provenance
Formerly in the Benedict Silverman collection, New York
LOUIS HESTAUX – “LA MOSELLE”, CIRCA 1900
“LA MOSELLE”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor and carved frame
Signed lower right
20.5 x 32 cm.
LOUIS HESTAUX – CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900
CARVED WOODEN TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Representing a lyre player and a singer or a
poetess on a crescent moon and an undergrowth background
The back is carved with a decor of bird and branches
Bears an old label and numbered 18, signed lower left L. Hestaux
33 x 16.5 x 2 cm.
Acquired directly from the family in May 2008