FRENCH COMMODES 2$
- Commode
Paris, circa 1737
By Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak set with panels of black Japanese
lacquer and painted with vernis Martin;
cherry and amaranth on interior of the
doors; gilt-bronze mounts; sarrancolin
marble top; eighteenth-century silk fabric
lining and silver metal galon
Stamped BVRB on top of carcass.
Height: 2 ft. 10 34 in. (88.3 cm); Width:
4 ft. 11^34 in. (151.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 1034 in.
(57.8 cm)
Accession number 65 .DA.4
PROVENANCE
(?) Colbert family, France, by repute, from
the eighteenth to the twentieth century;
[Rene Weiller, Paris]; [Rosenberg and
Stiebel, Inc., New York]; purchased by
J. Paul Getty, 1953.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paul Wescher, "French Furniture of the
Eighteenth Century in the J. Paul Getty
Museum," Art Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer
1955), pp. 121-122,128, illus. fig. 11; F. J. B.
Watson, The Wrightsman Collection (New
York, 1966), vol. ι, p. 152; Hans Huth,
Lacquer of the West: The History ofa Craft
and an Industry, i$$o~ip$o (Chicago and
London, 1971), p. 91, caption p. 145, illus.
fig. 238; Wilson, Selections, no. 14, pp.
28-29, illus.; Daniel Alcouffe, "La
commode du Cabinet de retraite de Marie
Leczinska ä Fontainebleau entre au Louvre,"
La Revue du Louvre 4 (1987), pp. 281-284,
illus. p. 282; Pradére, "1737, La Premiere
Commode en Laque du Japón,"
Connaissances des arts 436 (June 1988), pp.
108-113; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 139;
Daniel AlcoufTe, "Bernard Van
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Risen Burgh: Commode," Louvre: Nouvelles
acquisitions du département des objets d'art
ip8$-ip8p (Paris, 1990), p. 144.
- Commode
Paris, circa 1740
Oak veneered with kingwood, walnut,
amaranth, and padouk; gilt-bronze mounts;
breche d'Alep top
Stamped DF on top of carcass.
Height: 2 ft. ioVA in. (87 cm); Width:
5 ft. 1% in. (155.5 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 1 in.
(63.5 cm)
Accession number 76 .DA.15
PROVENANCE
Mrs. S. Shrigley-Feigel, Crag Hall, Wray,
Lancashire, England; [Alexander and
Berendt, Ltd., London, 1976]; purchased
by J. Paul Getty.
