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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Denis Roche, Le Mobilier frangais en Russie
(Paris, 1912), vol. 1, pl. 18; Duveen and Co.,
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth
Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson
Dodge (Detroit, 1933), p. ix, illus.; Andre
Boutemy, "L'Ebéniste Joseph Baumhauer,"
Connaissance des arts 157 (March 1965), illus.
p. 88; Jean-Dominique Augarde, "1749
Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste privilegié du
roi," LEstampille 204 (June 1987), pp. 15-45,
fig. 3; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 27, p. 245.
- Table {bureaupfa)
Paris, circa 1745-1749
By Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak veneered with tulipwood and ebony;
modern leather top; gilt-bronze mounts
Stamped B. V.R.B. underneath. Some of the
mounts stamped with the crowned Cfor
1745-1749·
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Height: 2 ft. 7 in. (78.7 cm); Width:
5 ft. 4/2 in. (163.8 cm); Depth: 2 ft. j^3 A in.
(79.6 cm)
Accession number 78.DA. 84
PROVENANCE
Henry Hirsch, London (sold, Christie s,
London, June 11,1931, lot 171); [J. M.
Botibol, London, 1931]; purchased by
J. Paul Getty, 1931.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Andre Boutemy, "B.V.R.B. et la morphologie
de son style," Gazette des beaux-arts 49
(March 1957), pp. 165-167; Barry Shifman,
"A Newly-Found Table by Edward Holmes
Baldock," Apollo 119 (January 1984),
pp. 38-42, illus.; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire,
p. 139.
- Mechanical Writing and Toilet Table
Paris, circa 1750
By Jean-Fran$ois Oeben
Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth,
satiné rouge, kingwood, and various stained
woods; iron mechanism; gilt-bronze mounts
Stamped J.F.OEBEN zná JME underneath.
Height: 2 ft. 4V4 in. (73 cm); Width:
2 ft. 5/8 in. (73.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2% in.
(37.8 cm)
Accession number 70.DA. 84
PROVENANCE
[B. Fabre et Fils, Paris]; [Cameron, London];
purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1949.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Verlet et al., Chef d'oeuvre, p. 123, illus.;
Andre Boutemy, "Jean-Francois Oeben
Méconnu," Gazette des beaux-arts 63 (April
1964), pp. 207-224, illus. p. 215, fig. 23;
Getty, Collecting, p. 153, illus.; Kjellberg,
Dictionnaire, p. 619.
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