Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre)
c. 1775/1785
Jean-Henri Riesener
Artist, French, born Germany, 1734 - 1806
Artwork overview
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Medium
veneered on oak principally with tulipwood and purplewood, with ebony (or wood stained to resemble ebony) and boxwood for stringing; gilded bronze mounts
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 121.3 x 128.2 x 78.2 cm (47 3/4 x 50 1/2 x 30 13/16 in.)
overall (depth of table top): 34.8 cm (13 11/16 in.)
overall (height to table top): 76.2 cm (30 in.) -
Accession Number
1942.9.410
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Arthur Maude, Westerham, Kent. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York); sold 9 December 1915 to Peter A.B. Widener; 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.
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).
2002
Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art; The Frick Collection, New York, 2002-2003, not in cat. (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.
2020
Jacobsen, Helen, Rufus Bird, and Mia Jackson, eds. Jean-Henri Riesener: Cabinetmaker to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette: Furniture in the Wallace Collection, the Royal Collection & Waddesdon Manor. London, 2020: 84, 88, fig. 76, 268 n. 311.
Wikidata ID
Q62266839