Based on a design by Martin CARLIN for Madame Victoire...
Based on a design by Martin CARLIN for Madame Victoire at the Château de Belle-Vue
Early 20th-Century Faubourg Saint-Antoine Craftsmanship—LARGE CHEST OF DRAWERS with a central projection, finished in Japanese-style lacquer featuring figures in landscapes, blackened wood, and richly ornamented gilded bronze fittings
It opens to reveal three drawers along the base and three doors; the central door features a lacquer panel framed by a porphyry-effect varnish, revealing three drawers with fronts inlaid with two-tone lozenges within a mahogany frame
Side posts with freestanding columns, fluting, gadroons, and lion’s paws
White marble top
Front crossbar with a wide apron, eight cloven feet
Gilded bronze ornamentation featuring garlands of fruit and ribbon-wrapped holly branches
97 x 155 x 55.5 cm
(missing sections on the lacquer panels; bronzes are encrusted with grime)
Bibliography: The original model, dated around 1785, is housed at the Louvre Museum.
Delivered by the dealer Darnault for the grand cabinet of Madame Victoire (1733–1799), daughter of Louis XV, at the Château de Bellevue; sent, during the First Empire, to the Château de Fontainebleau, then to the Château de Saint-Cloud, and finally to the Palais des Tuileries beginning in 1861; deposited at the Louvre Museum by decision of the Commission for the Civil List and Private Estate on September 12, 1870.
Based on a design by Martin CARLIN for Madame Victoire at the Château de Belle-Vue
Early 20th-Century Faubourg Saint-Antoine Craftsmanship—LARGE CHEST OF DRAWERS with a central projection, finished in Japanese-style lacquer featuring figures in landscapes, blackened wood, and richly ornamented gilded bronze fittings
It opens to reveal three drawers along the base and three doors; the central door features a lacquer panel framed by a porphyry-effect varnish, revealing three drawers with fronts inlaid with two-tone lozenges within a mahogany frame
Side posts with freestanding columns, fluting, gadroons, and lion’s paws
White marble top
Front crossbar with a wide apron, eight cloven feet
Gilded bronze ornamentation featuring garlands of fruit and ribbon-wrapped holly branches
97 x 155 x 55.5 cm
(missing sections on the lacquer panels; bronzes are encrusted with grime)
Bibliography: The original model, dated around 1785, is housed at the Louvre Museum.
Delivered by the dealer Darnault for the grand cabinet of Madame Victoire (1733–1799), daughter of Louis XV, at the Château de Bellevue; sent, during the First Empire, to the Château de Fontainebleau, then to the Château de Saint-Cloud, and finally to the Palais des Tuileries beginning in 1861; deposited at the Louvre Museum by decision of the Commission for the Civil List and Private Estate on September 12, 1870.
