This chair is one of a set of ten armchairs and two settees. The back piece is entitled Sculpture personified as a child, the seat is entitled A hound attacking a boar. These woven upholstery covers were made at the Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 20 Armchair covered with Gobelins tapestry, XVIII c. Back design by Boucher; seat, by Oudry." Appeared in Westways, March 1938.
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