FRENCH COMMODES 7TJ
One of a pair 28
- Pair of Commodes
Paris, circa 1750
By Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak and walnut veneered with tulipwood,
kingwood, and amaranth; gilt-bronze
mounts; one commode with a breche violette
top, one with a bro cate lie jaune top
Each commode stamped B. V.R.B. twice on
top of carcass.
Height: 2 ft. io^3 /s in. (87.3 cm); Width:
3 ft. 4/8 in. (101.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 10 in.
(55.9 cm)
Accession number 71.DA. 9 6.1—.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Given by Louis, Dauphin of France
(1729-1765), to his father-in-law Frederick
Augustus III, King of Poland, Dresden;
listed in inventories of the Residenz,
Dresden, in 1794 and 1798; Prince Ernst
Heinrich von Wettin, Schloss Moritzburg
(near Dresden), Saxony, and installed in the
Tower Room circa 1924 (sold early 1930s);
[C. Ball, Paris, 1934]; Anna Thomson
Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms,
Michigan (sold, Christie's, London, June 24,
1971, lot 102); purchased at that sale by
J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adolf Feulner, Kunstgeschichte des Möbels
(Berlin, 1927), pp. 324-325; Anthony
Coleridge, "Works of Art with a Royal
Provenance from the Collection of the Late
Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge of Detroit,"
Connoisseur 177, no. 711 (May 1971), p. 36,
illus.; Michael Stürmer, Handwerk und
höfische Kultur, Europäische Möbelkunst im
- Jahrhundert (Munich, 1982), illus. p. 67;
Wilson, Selections, no. 20, pp. 40-41, illus.;
Handbook 1986, p. 163, illus. (one); Pradére,
Les Ebénistes, illus. p. 189, fig. 175; Kjellberg,
Dictionnaire, p. 139.
- Commode
Paris, circa 1750
Attributed to Joseph Baumhauer
Oak set with panels of Japanese lacquer
and painted with vernis Martin-, gilt-bronze
mounts; campan melange vert marble top
One trade label of the marchand-mercier
Francois-Charles Darnault pasted on top of
carcass and another one pasted underneath.
Height: 2 ft. io^34 in. (88.3 cm); Width:
4 ft. 9/2 in. (146.1 cm); Depth: 2 ft.^5 /s in.
(62.6 cm)
Accession number 55.DA. 2
PROVENANCE
Edith and Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-
1968), London; purchased by J. Paul Getty,
1955, through Sir Robert Abdy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Verlet et al., Chefs d'oeuvre, p. 115, illus.;
Getty, Collecting, pp. 144-145, illus.; Wilson,
Selections, no. 23, pp. 46-47, illus.; Hand
book 1986, p. 161, illus.; Jean-Dominique
Augarde, "1749 Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste
privilegié du roi," L'Estampille 204 (June
1987), p. 36; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 2,
p. 244, illus. p. 233, fig. 236; Kjellberg,
Dictionnaire, p. 454; Handbook 1991, p. 179,
illus.
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