Writing and Toilet Table (table mécanique)

c. 1750/1755

Jean-François Oeben

Cabinetmaker, German, 1721 - 1763

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G11

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    veneered on oak with marquetry of tulipwood, kingwood, sycamore, ebony, boxwood, and other woods, some of them stained green and with traces of other colors; gilded bronze mounts

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 72.6 x 77.7 x 44 cm (28 9/16 x 30 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.413

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Grammondo, Spain; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York); inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania after purchase 15 December 1915 with funds of the estate; gift 1942 to NGA.

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.

1962

  • Boutemy, André. "Les Tables-Coiffeuses de Jean-François Oeben." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art (1962): 106-109, 111, fig. 2.

1973

  • Boutemy, André. "Analyses stylistiques et essais d'attribution de meubles français anonymes du XVIIIe siècle." Brussels: 217-221, repros.

Wikidata ID

Q62266843

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