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

41. Double Desk
    Paris, circa 1750
    By Bernard II van Risenburgh
    Oak veneered with tulipwood, kingwood,
    and amaranth; gilt-bronze mounts
    Stamped J ME B. V.R.B. JME underneath
    and on interior of carcass. Underside of
    carcass bears several red wax seals of the
    Duke of Argyll.
    Height: 3 ft. 6/2 in. (107.8 cm); Width:
    5 ft. 2% in. (158.7 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 9^3 /s in.
    (84.7 cm)
    Accession number 70 .DA.87
    PROVENANCE
    (?) Fran9ois Balthazar Dange, fermier
    general, Hotel de Villemare, Place Ven­
    dóme, Paris, recorded in the inventory
    after the death of his wife Anne (née Jarry),

March 27,1772, and also in the inventory

after his own death, March 17,1777 (sold,

September 1,1777, Paris); purchased by his

nephew and heir Louis-Balthazar Dange

de Bagneux {fermier general, IJ39-IJ94),

recorded in the inventory after his death

in 1795; by inheritance to his wife Anne-

Marie Samson and recorded in her inven­

tory after death; by descent to her daughter

Marie-Emilie-Fran9oise Dange, married

to Augustin Creuzé, in rue Saint-Honoré

[information: P. Leperlier]; Dukes of Argyll,

Inveraray Castle, Argyll, Scotland, by (?)

the early nineteenth century (sold by Ian,

nth Duke of Argyll, 19 51); Sir Robert Abdy,

Bt., London, 1951; [Rosenberg and Stiebel,

Inc., New York, 1952]; purchased by J. Paul

Getty, 1952.

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EXHIBITIONS

Paris, Hotel de la Monnaie, Louis XV: Un

Moment de perfection de Van frangais, 1974,

no. 430, pp. 327-328, illus.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Paul Wescher, "French Furniture of the

Eighteenth Century in the J. Paul Getty

Museum," Art Quarterly \%, no. 2 (Summer

1955), p. 121, illus. p. 78; Jean Meuvret and

Claude Frégnac, Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe

Steele frangais (Paris, 1963), p. 78, illus.;

Gerald Messadié, "J. Paul Getty, Malibu,

California," Great Private Collections,

Douglas Cooper, ed. (Zurich, 1963),

pp. 180-191, illus. p. 188; Verlet et al.,

Chefs d'oeuvre, pp. 116-117, illus.; Claude

Frégnac, Les Styles frangais (Paris, 1975), pi. 4;

Pierre Verlet, Les Meubles frangais du XVTIIe

Steele (Paris, 1982), p. 27, pi. 3 (detail);

Wilson, Selections, no. 22, pp. 44-45, illus.;

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