A fine Louis XV ormolu-mounted fruitwood floral marquetry kingwood...
A fine Louis XV ormolu-mounted fruitwood floral marquetry kingwood bureau dos d'âne
Jean-Baptiste Tuart (French, 1700-1767), circa 1760
The banded and floral marquetry fall front opening to reveal a finely fitted interior with an upper shelf above a pigeonhole flanked by four drawers over a secret compartment and a red gilt-tooled writing surface; the case with two additional short drawers over a single long drawer, all fitted with compartments, the front, sides, and verso all further marquetry decorated; the whole raised on four cabriole legs terminating in sabots and stamped to underside "J*TUART."
H: 38, W: 45, D: 18 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE:
Atelier Yvan Sarret, Aix le Bains, France, 1997.
The collection of Georges Perrier, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jean-Baptiste Tuart père (maître 1741) had his workshop in the heart of Paris, in the cloister of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois off Place du Louvre. This location, situated between the Palais-Royal and Palais des Tuileries, provided close access to the royal family when in Paris, and as such Tuart received numerous commissions for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. His more genteel, restrained expression of the Rococo style is characterized by satisfying proportions and pristine marquetry imbued with pastoral serenity.
Works by Jean-Baptiste Tuart père are today quite rare, though there are additional transitional and Louis XVI examples produced or retailed by his son, Jean-Baptiste II Tuart, who apprenticed with his father through about 1743 and was later named a maître tabletier et marchand-mercier with a fashionable establishment on rue Saint-Honoré.
Like other Tuart examples, this desk is fully decorated with fine marquetry on all four sides and meant to be appreciated in the round. A very similar desk, but without the lower case of drawers, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 26.168.74. A prie-dieu-secrétaire of similar proportion and marquetry is in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inventory number 38659.
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A fine Louis XV ormolu-mounted fruitwood floral marquetry kingwood bureau dos d'âne
Jean-Baptiste Tuart (French, 1700-1767), circa 1760
The banded and floral marquetry fall front opening to reveal a finely fitted interior with an upper shelf above a pigeonhole flanked by four drawers over a secret compartment and a red gilt-tooled writing surface; the case with two additional short drawers over a single long drawer, all fitted with compartments, the front, sides, and verso all further marquetry decorated; the whole raised on four cabriole legs terminating in sabots and stamped to underside "J*TUART."
H: 38, W: 45, D: 18 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE:
Atelier Yvan Sarret, Aix le Bains, France, 1997.
The collection of Georges Perrier, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jean-Baptiste Tuart père (maître 1741) had his workshop in the heart of Paris, in the cloister of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois off Place du Louvre. This location, situated between the Palais-Royal and Palais des Tuileries, provided close access to the royal family when in Paris, and as such Tuart received numerous commissions for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. His more genteel, restrained expression of the Rococo style is characterized by satisfying proportions and pristine marquetry imbued with pastoral serenity.
Works by Jean-Baptiste Tuart père are today quite rare, though there are additional transitional and Louis XVI examples produced or retailed by his son, Jean-Baptiste II Tuart, who apprenticed with his father through about 1743 and was later named a maître tabletier et marchand-mercier with a fashionable establishment on rue Saint-Honoré.
Like other Tuart examples, this desk is fully decorated with fine marquetry on all four sides and meant to be appreciated in the round. A very similar desk, but without the lower case of drawers, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 26.168.74. A prie-dieu-secrétaire of similar proportion and marquetry is in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inventory number 38659.
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