LATZ’S CLIENTELE AND INFLUENCE ABROAD
Ever since the eighteenth century very few works by Latz have been in France, and few have a French provenance: only the Wildenstein encoignures (130) and the Partridge examples which …
LATZ’S STYLE
Latz's work is in the full rococo style, characterized by free-moving forms of an exaggerated plasticity: the commodes as well as the encoignures are bombe on all sides. The restless …
LATZ
c. 1691-1754; ACTIVE 1719-54; EBENISTE PRIVILEGE DU ROI BEFORE 1741 N ow recognized as one of the great ebenistes working in the Louis XV style. Jean-Pierre Latz is one of …
GAUDREAUS
c. 1682-1746; MASTER 1708; SUPPLIER (WITH HIS SON) OF THE GARDE-MEUBLE ROYAL 1726-51 S on of a cobbler established in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and descended from a family from Burgundy. …
GAREL
MASTER 1723; ДСП VE 1724-50 C ard became a master on 16 February 1723 by the purchase of one of the eight masterships created at the coronation of Louis XV. …
CRKSSKNT
Jacques-Philippe
GRESSENT
1685-1768; MARCMAND-EBENISTE ANDSCULPTEUR T he active career of Charles Cressent spans the years between 1719 and 1757. He is certainly the ebeniste whose work is most representative of the Regcnce …
THE ‘PAGODA MASTER’
ANONYMOUS EBENISTE; ACTIVE 173(K A n entire group of furniture, among the most beautiful of the Regence, is still completely anonymous. None of these pieces is stamped or marked in …
DOIRAT
c. 1675-1732; LOU1S-SIMON PA1NSUN. 1700-BEFORE 1748 D oirat (E.) has the distinction of being the only important ebeniste of the Regence who stamped his work, there being no stamped pieces …
LIEUTAUD
BEFORE 1700-1748 T he stamp 'F. L.’ stands for Frangois Lieutaud. the grandfather of Balthazar Lieutaud. Born in Marseille. Frangois Lieutaud became a master ebeniste towards the end of the …
POITOU
point of success. Poitou rented four houses in the rue Joquelet on the corner of the rue Notre-Dame-des - Victoires. establishing his shop at the junction of the two streets. …
JOSEPH POITOU
Philippe Poitou was survived by three sons, all of them ebenistes: the eldest, another Philippe, lived in the enclave ofSaint-Jean-de-Latran. and the youngest. Jean, had settled in Orleans. The second …
POITOU
PHILIPPE, с. 1642-1709: МЛІ'ГКЕ MENUISIER EN EBENE BEFORE 1676JOSEPH, c. 1680-1718: MASTER 1717 T he earliest record concerning Philippe Poitou is his marriage contract with Constance Boulle. the sister of …
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jean-Pierre Samoyault: Andre-Charles Boulle et sa famille. Geneva. 1979 Gillian Wilson: 'Boulle'. Furniture History Society Bulletin, 1972 Jcan-Neree Ronfort: ‘Lc fondeur Jean-Pierre Mariette et la fin de I'atelier de Boulle'. …
FLORAL MARQUETRY AND PLAIN VENEERS
How. therefore, should we visualize Boulle’s work prior to 17(H)? Various references in the records mentioned indicate that Boulle was making the wooden floral marquetry so much in favour in …
SUMMARY OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL. GUIDELINES TO BOULLE’S WORKS
1688. Purchase by the Prince de Cond£ of 'two marquetry toilet coffers for the wedding of Mile dc Bourbon to the Prince de Conti, at the price of 1.260L’. Before …
STYLE AND PROBLEMS OF CHRONOLOGY
A survey of Boulle’s output reveals not only its creative force but also its homogeneity. Its principal characteristic is the importance of sculptural elements: gilt-bronze mounts play a completely new …
BOULLES PRODUCTION: ASPECTS OF. ATTRIBUTION
Boulle’s workshop did not stamp its production. In the absence of a stamp the scholar must use archival sources to make attributions (such as the deed of giftand the inventory …
BOULLE’S ASSISTANTS AND THE EXTENSION. OF HIS WORKSHOP
The names of Boulle’s colleagues are known from the records of legal proceedings against him by his workforce. whom he paid very infrequently. Besides his four sons, he was assisted …
BOULLE S COLLECTIONS AND DEBTS
Boulle was an inveterate collector. In his Abecedario Mariette writes of him: ‘No sale of drawings or prints look place which he did not attend, at which he did not …
BOULLE S CLIENTS
In the only two legal documents to have survived concerning Boulle’s workshop (the deed of gift, or 'acle dc delaissement' to his sons and the inventory taken after his death …
BOULLE
1642-1732; EBENISTE. CISELEUR. IX)REUR ETSCULPTEUR DU ROI 1672-1732 B orn in Paris in 1642. Andre-Charles Boulle was a member of a family originally from Guelder - land in the Netherlands. …
OPPENORDT
c. 1639-1715: ЁВЁЫЕГГЕ ORDINAIRE DU ROI B orn in the Netherlands in 1639, Oppenordt was the son of Henri Oppen Oordt and Marie Tendart. He established himself in Paris at …
CUCCPS ASSISTANTS
In his guide to Paris of 1706. Germain Brice writes of the pietra-dura workshop at the Gobelins: 'In the great courtyard close to the silversmiths’ workshops are to be found …
GUCCI
BEFORE 1640-1705; EBENISTE AND CASTER IN THE SERVICE OF THE KING; ACTIVE 1660-98 T he name was written in a number of ways; Gucci. Cuccy. de Cussy. Cussi or Cucy. …
INVENTORY TAKEN AFTER GOLE’S DEATH
The inventory of Gole’s workshop in the rue I’Arbre - Sec lists an important stock: about two hundred pieces of furniture are described, valued at approximately 11.0 livres. Most were …
COMMISSION’S FOR VERSAILLES
From 1670 to 1680 Gole was almost entirely concerned with works for Versailles, which was in the process of becoming the King’s principal residence. They were mainly tables in walnut …
THE CREATION OF THE BUREAU MAZARIN’
MARQUETRY IN IVORY AND CHINOISERIE
In 1663 and 1664 Cole delivered a suite of furniture with floral marquetry on ivory ground for Versailles. It consisted of a large cabinet with its two gueridons and their …
FURNISHING OF THE GRANDS CABINETS FOR THE CROWN AND COLLABORATION AT THE GOBELINS
In 1663 Gole completed two sumptuous cabinets ordered by Mazarin in his will as a present worthy of the King, and which give the measure of Gole’s reputation. These cabinets, …
GOLE. c. 1620-84; MASTER BEFORE 1656
O nly recently, through the researches of Luns - ingh Scheurleer. have we come to know of Pierre Gole. certainly the most important ebeniste during the first half of Louis …
THE EBENISTES
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THEM ARC HANDS — MERCIERS
I n the eighteenth century ordinary furniture was sold directly by the ebenistes, whereas luxury furniture was sold increasingly through the dealers, then called the 'marchands-mcrciers’. The fashion begun by …
THE TRADE IN CURIOSITES
I n the seventeenth century the furniture trade was divided between the ebenistes. the tapissiers (upholsterers) and the mar - chands-merciers. The marchands-merciers included furniture under the same general heading …
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AUCTION SALES
U ntil the middle of the eighteenth century, auction catalogues did not categorize furniture as such. Only paintings, drawings, works of sculpture and intaglios were deemed worthy of coverage in …
