20 FRENCH CABINETS
illus.; Jean-Dominique Augarde, "1749
Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste privilegié du
roí," L'Estampille 204 (June 1987), pp. 15-45,
figs. 26, 28; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 16,
p. 244; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 450;
Handbook 1991, p. 187, illus. p. 186.Η- Cabinet
Paris, circa 1765
By Roger Vandercruse Lacroix
Oak veneered with bois-de-rose, amaranth,
and green stained wood; gilt-bronze mounts;
white marble interior shelf
Stamped RVLC and J ME inside the drawer
at top right-hand side. Paper label glued
underneath printed with a ducal coronet
above the typed inscription CLUMBER.
Height: 3 ft. 1 in. (94 cm); Width:
ι ft. 11Y 4 in. (59.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 5% in.
(43.8 cm)
Accession number 70 .DA.81
PROVENANCE
Dukes of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clumber,
Nottinghamshire; Henry Pelham Archibald
Douglas, 7th Duke of Newcastle (1864-
1928), Clumber, Nottinghamshire, by
descent (sold by his heir, Christie's, London,
June 9,1937, lot 253); [J. M. Botibol,
London]; purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1938.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Verlet et al., Chefs d'oeuvre, p. 125, illus.;
Getty, Collecting, illus. p. 155.- Cabinet
Paris, circa 1785-1790, with marquetry
panels and some gilt-bronze mounts of the
late seventeenth century
Attributed to Philippe-Claude Montigny
Oak veneered with ebony, brass, pewter,
tortoiseshell, and amaranth; gilt-bronze
mounts; bhnco et new antico marble top
Height: 3 ft. 5% in. (104.8 cm); Width:
5 ft. 4^5 /8 in. (164.2 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 10% in.
(57.1cm)
Accession number 72. DA. 71
PROVENANCE
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-
Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-
1861), the Picture Gallery, Stafford House,
London, by 1848, and still present in 1895;
[Arnold Seligmann, Paris] (sold, Galerie
Jean Charpentier, Paris, June 4-5,1935,
lot 192); [Fran$ois-Gerard Seligmann,
Paris]; [French and Co., 1972]; purchased
by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. J. B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture
(London, i960), no. 236, illus.; Jean
Meuvret and Claude Frégnac, Ebénistes
du XVIIIe Steele frangais (Paris, 1963), p. 37,
illus.; Michael Stürmer, Handwerk und
höfische Kultur: Europäische Möbelkunst
im 18. Jahrhundert (Munich, 1982), illus.
pp. 156, 288; Marvin D. Schwartz, "Boulle
Furniture," Art and Antiques 6 (April 1983),
illus. p. 67; Alexandre Pradére, "Boulle de
Louis XIV sous Louis XVI," LEstampille-
LObjet dart o (June 1987), pp. 56-57,118;
illus. p. 62.15