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  • Double commode with corner cupboards, Paris, c. 1725
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carcase of oak and resinous wood, rosewood and curly walnut veneer, gilt bronze, rance marble 84 x 282 x 82.5 cm Purchased with the support of the Heritage Fund, 2006 Inv. 2006.1.1 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This commode, designed for a state bedroom, is remarkable in more ways than one. At almost three meters long, it is the largest eighteenth-century French commode; few quality commodes measure even half that length! Its (...)

  • Ewer, Paris, 1603-1604
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Silver 18 x 18.3 cm Bequest of Jean Jacques Gérard Reubell, 1934 Inv. 30391 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Some ewers were intended for hand-washing, in which case they were accompanied by basins; others were independent pieces used for serving drinks. This ewer is a rare example of French seventeenth-century secular silverware, and more especially of tableware; many pieces were melted down for the requirements of war or the (...)

  • Armchair, Paris, c. 1720
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carved and gilt beech 112 x 76 x 63 cm Gift of Rodolphe Kahn, 1888 Inv. 4563 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The frame of this armchair is carved with bulrushes entwined by acanthus leaves interspersed with shells; it indicates the newly important role of sculptors in the art of seat-making, working closely with chair makers and gilders within the highly regulated Parisian guild system. The French Régence style, which lasted from (...)

  • Clock, Vestal Virgins Carrying the Sacred Fire
    20 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (1740-1825), designer-ornamentalist Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), bronze caster Robert Robin (1742-1799), clockmaker Paris, 1788 Gilt bronze and bronze patinated in black, Sèvres porcelain plaque, biscuit, brocatelle and bleu turquin marble 50.5 x 65 x 18 cm Long-term loan from the Ministère de l’Intérieur, 1907 Inv. MIN INT. ss no.(2) © MAD If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Two Vestal (...)

  • Armchair, Probably Paris, c. 1670-1680
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carved and gilt beech, modern upholstery 114.7 x 70 x 80 cm Bequest of Émile Peyre, 1905 Inv. PE 704 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The structure of this chair reflects the new taste for comfort and luxury that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century. The high, slightly backward-leaning back, designed to support the shoulders, took over from the low, wide back popularized by Abraham Bosse’s (...)

  • Buffet and hutch, Probably Paris, c. 1730
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carved waxed oak, iron 320 x 188 x 67 cm Purchase, 1949 Inv. 36189 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The buffet, whose form derived from the armoire à deux corps (cupboard on chest), is distinguished from the latter by its two parts of different heights – a lower part at elbow height with a projecting ledge, and a far more elaborate upper part. Specifically designed for dining rooms, it was made of solid walnut or oak for greater (...)

  • Adrien Faizelot Delorme (1691-1768), cabinetmaker (attr. to), Étienne-Simon Martin (1703-1770), varnisher (attr. to), Lean-to writing desk, Paris, c. 1749-1750
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carcase of poplar or linden wood, sycamore, walnut, plum and amaranth veneer; blue and red varnish, blue shot silk, blue paper, silver-plated bronze, gilt bronze, iron Hot stamped: BV under a closed crown; inscription in ink: N°3./2703; inscription in lead pencil on the back of the drawers: 1, 2, 3, and M. Victoire; painted number: D.-W. 1404 88 x 69 x 43 cm Gift of David and Flora David-Weill, 1937 Inv. 32636 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the (...)

  • François-Thomas Germain (1726-1791), Ewer and basin, Paris, 1756-1758
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Silver Inscription on the back of the ewer: FAIT PAR F. T. GERMAIN SCULPTr ORF DU ROY AUX GALERIES DU LOUVRE A PARIS 1758 (“made by F. T. GERMAIN, sculptor to the king, in the galleries of the Louvre in Paris, 1758”) and the number 64. Ewer: 27.5 x 12 x 17.8 cm; Basin: 7.8 x 40.4 x 28.7 cm Bequest of Sylvie Burat (née Sluys), 1930 Inv. 26873 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Laurent Sully Jaulmes If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library On November 1, 1755, Lisbon (...)

  • Sèvres Manufactory, “The Emperor of China”, between 1776 and 1785
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Hard-paste porcelain Incised stamp on the base: 20 40.5 x 14.5 x 14.2 cm Bequest of Adèle Michon, 1923 Inv. 23723 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Unlike the Chinoiserie decorations in vogue at the Sèvres factory from the time of its creation, this statuette is not a fantasy figure but a genuine portrait – that of the Chinese emperor Qianlong (1736-1795). It was based on a watercolor portrait by Giuseppe Panzi, a Jesuit father at (...)

  • Vincennes Manufactory, “Duplessis” sauce boat, 1756
    19 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Soft-paste porcelain 11.9 x 26 x 19.4 cm Painted stamps: double L in blue; letter-date D (for the year 1756) Purchase, 1924 Inv. 24047 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This sauce boat resembles a surging, curling wave edged with blue foam, rising in jagged peaks as it sweeps seaweed and coral in its path. A veritable manifesto for Rococo art, it represents the culmination of the skill and absolute mastery of eighteenth-century (...)