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

PROVENANCE

Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, Vienna;

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Vienna;

confiscated by the Third Reich in March

1938; restituted to the Baroness Clarice

de Rothschild, Vienna, in 1947; [Frank

Partridge and Sons, Ltd., London, 1950];

purchased by J. Paul Getty for Sutton Place,

Surrey; distributed by the estate of J. Paul

Getty to the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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; Verlet et al., Chefi

d'oeuvre, p. 120, illus.; Getty, Collecting,

p. 150, illus.; Hans Huth, Lacquer of the

West: The History of a Craft and an Industry,

i$$o-i9$o (Chicago and London, 1971), cap­

tion p. 145, fig. 234; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire,

p. 273; Stephane Boiron, "Jacques Dubois,

maitre du style Louis XV," L'Estampille-

LObjet d'arti^e (June 1990), pp. 42-59,

illus. p. 56.

39. Pair of Corner Cupboards
    Paris, circa 1765
    By Pierre Gamier
    Oak veneered with ebony, kingwood, ama­
    ranth, boxwood, and (?) ebonized fruit-
    wood; gilt-bronze mounts; gray-veined
    white marble tops
    Each cupboard stamped P. GARNIER on top
    of carcass. One incised / on top of carcass,
    4 on the other.

One of a pair 39

Height: 4 ft. 5% in. (135.2 cm); Width:

2 ft. (61 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 4/2 in. (41.9 cm)

Accession number 81 .DA.82.1-.2

PROVENANCE

Francois-Ferdinand-Joseph Godefroy, Paris

(sold, Hotel de Bullion, Paris, November 15,

1785, lot 238 bis, to [?] Harcourt); Espirito

Santo Family, Portugal, and Lausanne,

Switzerland (sold circa 1976); [Didier Aaron,

Inc., New York].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wilson, "Acquisitions 1981," no. 3, pp. 71-73,

illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 31, pp. 62-63,

illus. figs 14-15; Handbook 1986, p. 170,

illus. (one); Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 238

bis, p. 250.

DESKS

40. Desk (bureau "Mazarin")
    Paris, after 1692-circa 1700
    Oak and walnut veneered with brass,
    tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, pewter,
    copper, ebony, painted and unpainted horn,
    and painted paper; silvered-bronze mounts;
    steel key
    Top engraved with unidentified arms (later
    replacement) beneath an electoral bonnet,
    surrounded by the Collar and the Order
    of the Toisón d'Or, supported by crowned
    lions.
    Height: 2 ft. 3% in. (70.5 cm); Width:
    2 ft. 11 in. (89 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 8 in. (51 cm)
    Accession number 87 .DA.77

34 FRENCH CORNER CUPBOARDS