About – Galerie Lamy Chabolle

Galerie Lamy Chabolle grew out of the partnership between Olivia Lamy Chabolle and David Prot, both antique dealers and art specialists with decades in the trade.

Olivia Lamy Chabolle began her career at the Tajan auction house before turning full-time to antiques in 2002. In 2015, David Prot — who came up through the puces de Saint-Ouen — joined her. Together they offer a curated selection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts spanning the 16th to the 20th century.

Nourished by Greco-Roman antiquity and its principles of harmony, proportion, and balance, their eye delights in mingling with the refinements of the Renaissance and the atmosphere of the cabinet of curiosities. It willingly sets the pure lines of the Consulate, Directoire, and Empire periods against the curves of the Baroque, the Rococo, and even Art Nouveau. At times, it opposes the immutable forms of antiquity with the revolutions of the avant-gardes and modern art.

A Swedish porphyry *tazza* with a pair of highly finished gilt bronze candelabra, on top of a French, late 18th *Retour d’Égypte* chest of drawers.

A Renaissance bronze *Bathing Venus*, a German, 18th century, agate and silver casket, and a red coral branch mounted on a Gothic base.

A *Still Life with Spoon* by Picasso and a *Trapeza* by Robsjohn-Gibbings and Saridis of Athens.

A late 18th century copy after a bust of Homer from the Capitoline Museums, reflected in a Venetian, early 18th century mirror.

Detail of a rare bronze cast of the *Bacchus Richelieu*, ca. 1800.

The gallery, in other words, thrives on the unexpected. There is no telling what you will find: an Art Deco sculpture beside a Baroque canvas, a Renaissance bronze next to a Grand Tour replica of a Roman temple, a Renaissance cabinet or a Historicist secrétaire, a pair of Rococo wall lights or a contemporary table made to order. Chosen as much for their beauty as for their story, the pieces speak freely across centuries, civilizations, and traditions — coming together in singular collections and interiors that stay with you.