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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Lean-to Writing Desk (secrétaire en pente)
Bernard van Risenburgh II (cabinetmaker)
French, active c. 1730 - 1765/1766
Lean-to Writing Desk (secrétaire en pente), c. 1750
veneered on oak (stained purple on the underside of the top) with tulipwood cut on the quarter, root-cut kingwood, and other end-cut woods; gilded bronze mounts
overall: 80 x 53.3 x 35.8 cm (31 1/2 x 21 x 14 1/8 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.419
Not on View
From the Tour: Rococo Decorative Arts of the Mid-1700s
Object 5 of 7

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

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