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

118. Mantelpiece
     (?) Paris, circa 1690-1700
     Sarrancolin des Pyrenees marble (also known
     as marbre d'Antin) and breche violette
     Height: 5 ft. 10 Vz in. (179.1 cm); Width:
     7 ft. 10% in. (240 cm); Depth: 1 ft. ιιλ in.
     (34.3 cm)
     Accession number 89 .DH.30
     PROVENANCE
     [B. Fab re et Fils, Paris].
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     "Acquisitions/1989," GettyMusJ18 (1990),
     no. 52, p. 193, illus.


119. Paneling
     Paris, 1725-1726
     By Jacques Gaultier, menuisier, after the
     designs of Armand-Claude Mollet
     Painted and gilded oak and walnut; breche
     dAlep mantelpiece; modern mirror glass
     Height: 13 ft. (396.2 cm); Width: 26 ft. 9 in.
     (815 cm); Depth: 22 ft. (670.6 cm)
     Accession number 71 .DH.118

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PROVENANCE

Guillaume Cressart, Hotel Cressart,

installed in 1725 and 1726 in the chambre

ä coucher of 18 place Vendóme, Paris;

Louis-Auguste Duché, 1733; Jean-Baptiste

Duché (brother of Louis-Auguste Duché),

by 1743; Elisabeth-Louis Duché (wife of

Jacques Bertrand, marquis de Scépeaux et

de Beaupreau), after 1743; Elisabeth-Louise-

Adélaíde de Scépeaux de Beaupreau (wife of

the comte de La Tour d'Auvergne), 1769;

Jean-Louis Milon d'Inval, Paris, 1774; by

inheritance to his wife, Antoinette Bureau

Seraudey (Mme d'Inval), in an III (1794-

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