Corner-Cupboard (encoignure)
probably 1745/1749
Cabinetmaker, French, active c. 1739
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G13
Artwork overview
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Medium
veneered on oak, stained black, with ebonized wood, sycamore and kingwood veneers; japanned on each door with _vernis Martin_; gilded bronze mounts; black and gold Portor marble top
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 99.3 x 89 x 66.8 cm (39 1/8 x 35 1/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.418
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Rodolphe Kann [died 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. Paris, 1907: no. 220, repro.
[2] Information in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1965
Boutemy, André. "L'ébéniste Joseph Baumhauer." Connaissance des Arts no. 157 (March 1965): 83-89, fig. 8.
1987
Augarde, Jean Dominique. "1749: Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste privilegé du roi." L'Estampille no. 204 (June 1987): 14-45, fig. 9.
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
Q62758232