Lot 906: P A Senegat, French, act. 1715- Six various

P A Senegat, French, act. 1715- Six various Chinese scenes, a dining courtesan surrounded by musicians and attendants; ceremonial tea scene; figures gathering fruit; a family at dinner; a gambling and gaming scene; men gathered reading; pen and brown ink, blue and grey ink wash on buff laid paper, each signed and dated 1715, in matching carved and pierced gilt frames in the 18th century Chippendale style- with carved and pierced gallery sight-edge and reeded ovolo, 42x53cm,ea., Note: P A Senegat, a seemingly obscure artist working in the very fashionable Chinese style chinioserie and presumably having contact with some of the most influential French artists of the 17th and 18th centuries. In France, Louis XV (1710-1774) began to use the "new style" of chinoiserie as it blended well with the already established rococo. Entire rooms, such as those at Chantilly, where painted with compositions in chinoiserie, Jean-Antoine Watteau and other artists rendered whimsical figures depicted in poetic landscapes in the Chinese style. Thomas Chippendale, cabinet maker, produced a unique and decorative type of chinoiserie furniture, and remains England's top exponent of the style. Louis XIV had built the Trianon de Porcelaine in the park at Versailles ( 1670 - 1 ), become the prototype for Chinese pagodas and pavilions across 17th and 18th century Europe. Jean-Antoine Watteau also painted a series of figures (c.1709) "chinoises et tartares" for the Cabinet du Roi at the ChÔteau de La Muette, (now known only through engravings) and further developed by the chinoiseries of Christophe Huet, while a more original and stylised approach was shown in the chinoiserie of francois Boucher, in his tapestry designs (the tentures chinoises woven at Beauvais) and his settings for Noverre's ballet "Les FÛtes chinoises" and also paintings such as The Chinese Fishing Party and The Chinese Fair (both 1742 ; Besancon, Mus. des Beaux-Arts). In England chinoiserie was employed more in porcelain, furniture, decoration, and architecture than in paintings and drawings. collimating with William Chambers's Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture etc, publ.1757; and the Brighton Pavilion designed by John Nash for the Prince Regent. Provenance: Patrick G Perrin, Paris, with accompanying letter.