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Blackened wooden odor box decorated with acanthus leaves and composed of four bottles decorated with golden acanthus leaves. The box is signed Alph Giroux Paris. XIXth century.
Note some small chips on the bottles, visible in the photos.
Alphonse Giroux
Alphonse Giroux first turned to the career of painter under the direction of Jacques-Louis David, but he abandoned his brushes for an activity of merchant of paintings and furniture and works of art. From 1799 to 1848, he worked at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré in Paris.
Under the A. GIROUX brand in PARIS, his store became a famous store of cabinet making and cabinetmaking whose activity radiated from the consulate at the end of the second empire, with the father then the son. The cabinetmaking workshop began in 1799, the father died in 1848 and his two sons Luis succeeded him in the direction of the workshops and the store. Their specialty was the manufacture of very high-end small furniture for the bourgeoisie and the nobility. It was at Giroux that Charles X and Louis XVIII chose the gifts for young princes: Princess Louise and the Duke of Bordeaux.
Alphonse Giroux won many national and international prizes, including a silver medal at the Exposition of 1834, and in the second half of the 19th century became a real benchmark for boxes, various and varied boxes and small decorative pieces of furniture. or writing.
One of his sons, Alphonse-Gustave, continued his activity. Another, André Giroux, took up the brushes abandoned by his father.
On June 22, 1839, Louis Daguerre and Isidore Niépce signed a contract with Alphonse Giroux and the Société Susse frères, granting them exclusive rights to manufacture and sell the daguerreotype chamber. In December 1839, François Fa
