p. 72; Wilson, Selections, no. 3, pp. 6-7,
illus.; Gillian Wilson, "A Late Seventeenth-
Century French Cabinet at the J. Paul Getty
Museum," The Art Institute of Chicago
Centennial Lecture; Museum Studies 10
(1983), pp. 119-131, illus.; Handbook 1986,
p. 145, illus. p. 144; Lorenz Seelig, "Eine
Reiterstatuette Kurfürst Max Emanuels von
Bayern aus dem Jahr 1699," Anzeiger des
germanischen Nationalmuseums (1986), n. 34,
p. 73; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, p. 94; p. 104,
no. 103; illus. p. 93, fig. 49; Handbook 1991,
p. 158, illus. p. 159.- Cabinet (cabinet des médailles)
Paris, circa 1710-
Attributed to André-Charles Boulle
Oak veneered with ebony, brass, and
tortoiseshell; gilt-bronze mounts;
sarrancolin des Pyrenees marble top
Height: 2 ft. 8/2 in. (82.5 cm); Width:
4 ft. 7*4 in. (140 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 4/2 in.
(72.5 cm)
Accession number 84.DA. 58
PROVENANCE
Suzanne de Launay and Jules-Robert de
Cotte, Paris; inventoried after their deaths
as one of a pair of medal cabinets on
November 20,1767; by descent to their
son, Jules-Fran$ois de Cotte; inventoried in
his collection on May 13,1782 (sold, Paris,
March 8,1804, lot 34); Baron Gustave
Salomon de Rothschild, Paris; Baronne
Cecilie de Rothschild (née Ansbach,
1840-1912), Paris; Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt.,
London, by descent, 1912; Sybil Sassoon
(Marchioness of Cholmondeley, wife of
the 5th Marquess, married 1913), Houghton
Hall, Norfolk, by descent, after 1939 (sold,
Christie's, London, April 12,1984, lot 164).
EXHIBITIONS
London, 25 Park Lane, Three French Reigns,
February-April 1933, no. 71, illus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. J. B. Watson, "The Marquess of
Cholmondeley," Great Family Collections,
Douglas Cooper, ed. (Zurich, 1963),
p. 228, illus.; Pierre Verlet, La Maison du
XVIIIe Steele en France: Société, decoration,
mobilier (Paris, 1966), p. 38, fig. 21;
Wilson, "Acquisitions 1984," pp. 67-71,illus.; "Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ 13
(1985), no. 47, pp. 175-176, illus.; Pradére,
Les Ebénistes, no. 157, p. 104, illus. p. 109,
fig. 65; Handbook 1991, p. 162, illus.l6 FRENCH CABINETS
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