Jean-Henri Riesener (artist) French, 1734 - 1806 Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre), c. 1775/1785 veneered on oak principally with tulip-wood and purple-wood, with ebony (or wood stained to resemble ebony) and boxwood for stringing; gilded bronze mounts Overall: 121.3 x 128.2 x 78.2 cm (47 3/4 x 50 1/2 x 30 13/16 in.) overall (height to table top): 76.2 cm (30 in.) overall (depth of table top): 34.8 cm (13 11/16 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.410

From the Tour: Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
Object 2 of 6

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).

2002

Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art; The Frick Collection, New York, 2002-2003, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

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