Writing Table (table à écrire)

c. 1780

Jean-Henri Riesener

Artist, French, born Germany, 1734 - 1806

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G11

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    veneered on oak with mahogany, sycamore, purplewood, boxwood, ebony, and holly; gilded bronze mounts

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 78.9 x 81.9 x 49.5 cm (31 1/16 x 32 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.409

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lady Du Cane [probably Florence Victoria Du Cane]. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York); sold 24 February 1910 to Peter A.B. Widener; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1913

  • Ricci, Seymour de. Louis XVI Furniture. Stuttgart, [1913?]: pl. 113.

  • Ricci, Seymour de. Der Stil Louis XVI, Mobiliar und Raumkunst. Stuttgart, 1913: pl. 107.

  • Ricci, Seymour de. Louis XVI Furniture. London, 1913: pl. 107.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 18.

Wikidata ID

Q62758214

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