Corner-Cupboard (encoignure)

probably 1745/1749

Jean Desforges

Cabinetmaker, French, active c. 1739

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G13

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    veneered on oak, stained black, with ebonized wood; japanned on each door with _vernis Martin_; gilded bronze mounts; black and gold Portor marble top

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 100.4 x 88.4 x 67 cm (39 1/2 x 34 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.417

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rodolphe Kann [1844/1845-1905], Paris;[1] purchased 1907 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), together with the entire Kann collection; sold 2 October 1908 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] 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] Jules Mannheim, The Rodolphe Kann Collection, Objects d'Art. 2 vols. Paris, 1907: 2:no. 220, repro.
[2] Information in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1907

  • Mannheim, Jules. The Rodolphe Kann Collection, Objects d'Art. 2 vols. Paris, 1907: 2:no. 220, repro.

Inscriptions

stamped on top of the carcase above the forecorners at right and left with the smaller of the two estampille used by the maker: DF; struck on all mounts at least once with the two smaller of the three sizes of a tax mark: C-couronné

Wikidata ID

Q62266851

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