# Georges Jacob

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{{for|the French organist, improviser and composer|Georges Jacob (organist)}}
thumb|Georges Jacob in 1793
'''Georges Jacob''' (6 July 1739 – 5 July 1814) was one of the two most prominent [Paris](/source/Paris)ian master ''menuisiers''. He produced carved, painted and gilded beds and seat furniture and upholstery work for the French royal châteaux, in the [Neoclassical](/source/Neoclassicism) style that is associated with [Louis XVI furniture](/source/Louis_XVI_furniture).
<!-- Deleted image removed: left|thumb|300px|A suite of giltwood furniture, made circa 1775, four of the chairs signed by Jacob. -->

==Life and career==
Jacob was born in [Cheny](/source/Cheny), Burgundy. He arrived in Paris in 1754 and was apprenticed to the chairmaker Jean-Baptiste Lerouge where he met [Louis Delanois](/source/Louis_Delanois), whose advanced [neoclassical](/source/Neoclassicism) taste was to have a great influence on Jacob. He was received master 4 September 1765, presenting for his masterpiece a small chair of gilded wood, which survives.

Without marrying either the daughter or the widow of an established ''menuisier'',<ref>Jacob married in 1767 Jeanne-Germaine Loyer with whom he had five children.</ref> Jacob set up his own premises. He employed in his workshop numerous specialist carvers and [gilders](/source/gilding). In 1785, Jacob produced the first [mahogany](/source/mahogany) chairs ''à l'anglaise'', for the [comte de Provence](/source/comte_de_Provence). After Delanois' early death in 1792, Jacob's only serious rival in his field was [Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Claude_Sen%C3%A9).

He retired in 1796, leaving his workshop in the hands of his sons, one of whom was [François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois-Honor%C3%A9-Georges_Jacob-Desmalter). When his other son died, Jacob returned from retirement to oversee the constant supply of furnishings for [Napoleon](/source/Napoleon)'s residences.

His descendant Hector Lefuel, son of the architect [Hector Lefuel](/source/Hector_Lefuel), wrote the monograph, ''Georges Jacob'' (Paris, 1923). Two models in beeswax attributed to Jacob, one for a [fauteuil](/source/fauteuil) and one for a [bed 'à la turque'](/source/Lit_a_la_turque), have remained in the family's possession.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ChairPhoto1369.JPG|A giltwood neoclassical chair, made circa 1775 and signed by Jacob
File:Fauteuil Jacob cabinet méridienne Versailles.jpg|Armchair by Jacob in the Château de Versailles (1781)
File:Boudoir.jpg|Boudoir
</gallery>

==See also==
{{commons category|Georges Jacob (furniture maker)|Georges Jacob}}
*[Louis XVI furniture](/source/Louis_XVI_furniture)
*[Louis XVI style](/source/Louis_XVI_style)
*[Neoclassicism in France](/source/Neoclassicism_in_France)

==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903155102/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=558 Getty Museum – Georges Jacob]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ffurn/hod_1977.102.13,14.htm Metropolitan Museum of Art – side chair from a suite made for Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries, 1784]
* ''Le siège français'' by Madeleine Jarry & Pierre Devinoy (excellent source material on Georges Jacob, his descendants and his business)

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |author=[Parker, James](/source/James_Parker_(art_historian)) & Le Corbeiller, Clare| title= ''A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' | location=New York | publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art | year=1979| isbn=0-87099-186-8 | url=http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/35238/rec/1}} (see index: p.&nbsp;127-128; illustration: p.&nbsp;50)

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