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Bonjour! Welcome to French Metro Antiques, direct importers of fine French antique furniture and accessories. We invite you to share our passion for aesthetics, language, history and the French culture.
Located on Dickson Street in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas, French Metro Antiques is a mecca for those who have an appreciation for beauty, quality, and authenticity. We travel to France two times a year to personally select each accessory and piece of furniture that arrives at our door.
$ 995.00
Pair of tall early twentieth century shutters with arched top. Ideal as a headboard for a queen size bed. 82.5" H X 61" W X 2.25" D
$ 4,995.00
Very large Louis XIII period hand carved oak coffer with inscribed year of 1631 from the village of Mortain in Normandy. Carved on three sides with original hand forged iron...
$ 4,500.00
Napoleon III period liqueur caddy or tantalus with mother of pearl star inlay. Rosewood and mahogany with lemonwood and ebonized pearwood inlay. Bronze beading around upper and lower edges. Lift-out...
$ 995.00
Large architectural panel originally part of a boiserie in a manor house. Marie Antoinette grey with gilded detailing. 73" H X 22.5" W
$ 995.00
Early twentieth century bistro table with enameled iron base marked Toulouse, Lyon, Depose (trademarked) with its original white marble top with brass banding. c. 1900. 39.5" L X 23.5"...
$ 2,995.00
Large eighteenth century iron fireplace back, Molded using the sand method of the period. Motifs include greyhounds supporting cornucopias representing prosperity and a Greek god of wind. The coat of...
Ask anyone to do an impression of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and almost everyone will strike a pose with one leg slightly forward and right hand thrust in coat. Even two hundred years after his death, we all still know how to do it, but why is it so closely associated with him? It is often stated that this was just an eighteenth and nineteenth century artist’s convention for portraiture, and that it was meant to convey good breeding and calm reserve while in command. However, this pose in portraits became such a cliché with many claiming that artists simply did not know how to paint hands that it fell out of fashion by the end of the...
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