Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

FRENCH COMMODES 29

32. Commode
    Paris, 1769
    By Gilles Joubert
    Oak veneered with kingwood, tulipwood,
    holly or boxwood, and ebony; gilt-bronze
    mounts; sarrancolin marble top
    Painted in black ink on the back with the
    inventory number du No 2556.2 of the
    Garde-Meuble de la Couronne.
    Height: 3 ft.^34 in. (93.5 cm); Width:
    5 ft. 11 x 4 in. (181 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 3 in.
    (68.5 cm)
    Accession number 55.DA. 5
    PROVENANCE
    Made for Madame Louise of France
    (youngest daughter of Louis XV), Chateau
    de Versailles, 1769; Emmanuel-Felicité,
    due de Duras, Maréchal de France, Chateau
    de Fontainebleau, 1785; (?) Baron Lionel
    Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879),
    Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex; by descent
    to his son, Leopold de Rothschild (1845-
    1917), Hamilton Place, London; by descent
    to his son, Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
    (1882-1942), Exbury House, Hampshire; by
    descent to his son, Edmund de Rothschild
    (b. 1916), Inchmery House, Exbury, Hamp­
    shire (sold by him in 1947); Edith and Sir
    Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), London;
    purchased by J. Paul Getty.
    EXHIBITIONS
    Paris, Hotel de la Monnaie, Louis XV:
    Un Moment de perfection de Vart frangais,
    1974, no. 422, pp. 320-321, illus.

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