Pair of 20th-century Art Deco-style wrought-iron chairs with lyre-shaped backs adorned with bronze swan heads and necks, attributed to Samuel Copelon for the Jansen firm, around 1930.

Inspired by the Directoire or Neoclassical style, reimagined in the Art Deco era, featuring crossed legs and bronze finishes.

Upholstered seat covered in cream fabric.

Height : 34,5 in 

Width : 15,5 in 

Depth : 15 in

The author undoubtedly knew the versions by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) who have contributed to the fame of this subject is ambivalent, at once moralising and that also draws the viewer's gaze on the nakedness of the characters.
These early representations of the nude in the North of the Alps, inspired by the circles of the Humanists of Wittenberg, were intended both to seduce and to warn the viewer.