Corner-Cupboard (encoignure), probably 1745/1749

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G13

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

Dimensions

overall: 99.3 x 89 x 66.8 cm (39 1/8 x 35 1/16 x 26 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.418

Artists / Makers

Jean Desforges (cabinetmaker) French, active c. 1739

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Inscription

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_

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

Widener, Joseph E.

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.