# Armchair \(Bergère a la reine et a châssis, assise cannée\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FOLIOT, Nicolas-Quinibert]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Carved, gessoed, and gilded beech; modern upholstery, 98 x 78 x 61 cm ## Commentary Armchair \(Bergère a la reine et a châssis, assise cannée\) c. 1750 Carved, gessoed, and gilded beech; modern upholstery, 98 x 78 x 61 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Born into a family of chairmakers and furniture carvers, Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot distinguished himself as a skilled menuisier running a prosperous workshop for forty years in Paris in the 1700s. For much of his career, he worked for the French court, sending furniture to the palaces of Versailles, Compiègne, and Fontainebleau. This earned him the title of menuisier du Garde-Meuble du Roi \(Furniture-Maker to the King's Household\). ## Related artworks - [Folding stool]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()