Writing Table (bureau plat à espagnolettes coiffées d'aigrettes)

c. 1720/1725 and after

Charles Cressent

Cabinetmaker, French, 1685 - 1768

Western European 19th Century

Cabinetmaker

Western European 20th Century

Cabinetmaker

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    veneered on pine with tulipwood and kingwood, the top inlaid with black leather; oak drawers; gilded bronze mounts

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 77.5 x 177.9 x 101.5 cm (30 1/2 x 70 1/16 x 39 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.415

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Comte Boni de Castellane, Paris.[1] J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr. [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 23 June 1915 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; 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.
[1] The provenance comes from Widener collection records, in NGA curatorial files. "Comte Boni de Castellane" is probably Marie-Ernest-Paul Boniface (1867-1932), officially the Marquis Boni de Castellane, but known more frequently as the Comte. He married the American heiress Anna Gould in 1895, and was divorced by her in 1906.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • François Boucher in North American Collections: One Hundred Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-1974, not in catalogue or brochure (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1942

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

2003

  • Pradère, Alexandre. Charles Cressent: sculpteur, ébéniste du Régent. Dijon, 2003: 124, 244, 266 no. 48, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62266849

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