Commode
c. 1770
Artist, French, active 1765 - c. 1780
Artwork overview
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Medium
wood marquetry, gilded bronze, and marble
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 87.6 × 170.2 × 59.1 cm (34 1/2 × 67 × 23 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2014.136.360
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1913 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2001
Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 28.
1989
Pradere, Alexander. French Furniture Makers: The Art of the Ebeniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution. J. Paul Getty Museum, 1989; 275-280.
Inscriptions
stamped under the marble top on the top right corner, the "JME" in monogram: JME [Jure des Ménuisiers Ébénistes] / P.A.Foullet
Wikidata ID
Q62288161