Pierre Nogaret (1718 - August 23, 1771) Menuisier en sieges. ( menuisier* wood-carver, chair maker. seated furniture ).  Maitre in 1745 in Lyon. ( Received as Master Menuisier in 1745 ).  Lyon's most famous Menuisier. These works, almost all carved walnut and  decorated with flowers and rocaille.  Stamped "NOGARET LYON.

The biography of Nogaret

 

Pierre Nogaret was born in Paris in 1718 and will remain the undisputed master menuisier of seating furniture in Lyon during the reign of Louis XV.  His biography is based records from the church of Lyon. All other documents were destroyed in 1871, after the fire perpetrated by the Commune, the archives of the Paris City Hall. However, we believe that after an apprenticeship in Paris, probably by a Master menuisier  he left the capital in 1743, and moved to Lyon where he continued his training under the master menuisier of Lyon, François Girard, established Petite rue Saint Romain. In 1744 he married Anne some Muguet, a native of Roanne, and received his master's letters in Lyon in 1745. He was elected maître-grade ( master of the Lyon guild of menuisiers ), carpenters with Mathieu Lerbet that on February 9, 1771. He died on August 23 of the same year and was buried in the "cave of St. Roch ". At his death, his children continued under the tutelage of Master menuisier tienne Vanderheyden. In 1772, his wife sold his workshop to Master menuisier Nicolas Parmantier who continued production by affixing his stamp on some of his unfinished works.

 

 

The work of Nogaret, entire Louis XV style, is considerable.  Armchairs, chairs, sofas are perfect, balanced and elegant. Their furnishings, impeccable quality and are recognize at a glance. Most of the seats are walnut or beech coated with lacquer or varnish. Details, are intricately carved with roses, peonies or with foliage 

 

 

Although not always present, the stamp of Nogaret appears as a line of small caps and the shape of the Y Lyon has a provision quite characteristic, such as the leg flap on the left horizontally.  The location of the stamp appears to have been Nogaret rigourosly coded. On seats flat file caned, the stamp is on the rear cross member of the chassis, on the seats to embourrés flat file, it is on the rear cross the belt, on fauteuils, the amount of file-level assembly and the gilded wooden seats frame, on a cross inside of the belt frame.

 

 

Deckchair Louis XV - Jacquemart-André - Chaalis

child of Louis XV armchair - Museum of Art and History - Geneva

Three cabriolet armchairs Louis XV - Musée Nissim de Camondo - Paris

Four chairs Louis XV to Queen - Louvre

Pair of carved wooden chairs, covered in velvet modern, Louis XV - No. MAD 1179 Pair of cabriolet armchairs carved walnut. There are violin shape folder, slightly curved. They have armrests wide apart and are based on cabriole legs ending in cabriole legs. - No. MAD 1580, 4 convertible armchairs and 2 chairs filled, only two armchairs and two chairs are stamped. The flowers are on the belt are différentent from one seat to another. - No. MAD 2673, convertible armchairs Pair - No. 3140 MAD, Cabriolet chair - No. 474 MAD - Decorative Arts - Lyon

Louis XV chair - Decorative Arts - Paris

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Nogaret and the Lyon seat - Deloche Bernard, Jean-Yves Mornand - Jacques André editor - 2009

The French furniture of the eighteenth century - Pierre Kjellberg - Les Editions de l'Amateur - 2008

Cabinetmakers of the eighteenth century - Earl Francis Salverte - editions of Art and History - 1934

Art seat in eighteenth century France - Bill G. B. Pallot - ACR-Gismondi Editors - 1996