page_title: Charles-Honoré Lannuier
section_title: Range of furniture
hierarchical_section_title: Charles-Honoré Lannuier / Range of furniture
caption_attribution_description: American; Side chair; Furniture
context_page_description: Charles-Honoré Lannuier, French cabinetmaker, lived and worked in New York City. In Lannuier's time, the style of his furniture was described as "French Antique." Today his work is classified primarily as Federal furniture, Neoclassical, or American Empire.
context_section_description: Lannuier's earlier work included sideboards, commodes, worktables, dining tables and chairs, and game tables. One set of his early chairs was purchased by James Bosley, a Merchant from Baltimore, Maryland (1779-1843) . 
  This particular set of twelve (12) Lannuier chairs (referred to as the "James Bosley Set") consisting of 2 Arm Chairs and 10 Side Chairs in the NeoClassical French style was purchased for Bosley's Music room in Baltimore, Maryland. According to Mr. Peter Kinny's Book on Lannuier for the NY Met (pages 133-137) it is believed that James Bosley acquired the set of chairs from Lannuier client, A.S. Bulloch in Savannah, Georgia.  Archibald Stobo Bullock and his Wife, Sara Glen built the 'Bulloch-Habersham' house at 229 Barnard Street, Orleans Square in Savannah, Georgia and filled the new house with a large quantity of furniture that had been shipped to Bulloch from Charles-Honore'Lannuier shortly before his death. Due to the Great Savannah Fire in 1820, Bulloch was forced to sell his possessions and eventually his house. James Bosley purchased the set which he used to furnish the music room in his new townhouse on Calvert Street in Baltimore.
  
  The James Bosley set was passed down to his wife, Elizabeth Nicholson (Noel) Bosley (1797-1851), who, dying without issue, passed the set to her sister, Margaret Esther (Noel) Wyatt (1799-1897)  who left the set to her only child, Architect James Bosley Noel Wyatt. Mr Wyatt (1847-1926) left most of the Chairs and other Lannuier pieces to the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore however one chair from this set resides at the NY Met and two remain with family members. Two side chairs from the Bosley set remain unaccounted for. 
  As the Empire style became more entrenched, and his success grew, Lannuier produced larger, more expensive pieces including sofas, cylinder desks, and bedsteads. While his pieces are considered within the Empire style, Lannuier's work is distinct for being more delicate and for recalling the refinement found in the Directoire style. Examples of Lannuier's furniture can be seen in the White House Red Room, the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Bartow-Pell Mansion.
  The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art New York published a book titled:  "Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris (The Life and Work of a French Ebénisté in Federal New York)" by Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter and Ulrich Leben that outlines Lannuier's work
caption: Side chair MET DT4498
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