Lean-to Writing Desk (table à abbattant)

c. 1750

Pierre Migeon II

Cabinetmaker, French, 1701 - 1758

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NGA, West Building, G-011-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    veneered on oak with tulipwood, purplewood and kingwood; gilded bronze mounts

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.7 x 71.7 x 43.3 cm (30 3/16 x 28 1/4 x 17 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.424

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly J. Pierpont Morgan, New York. (Duveen, New York and London); by whom sold 9 December 1915 to Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener; gift 1942 to NGA.

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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

1982

  • Verlet, Pierre. Les Meubles Français du XVIIIe siècle. 2nd rev. ed. Paris, 1982: fig. 111.

2001

  • Mouquin, Sophie. Pierre IV Migeon, 1696-1758, Au coeur d'une dynastie d'ébénistes parisiens. Paris, 2001: 100 fig. 43, 101, 130 nn. 290, 291.

Wikidata ID

Q62266865

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