JACQUES DUBOIS (1693 1763) Reçu maître en 1742

JACQUES DUBOIS (1693 1763) Reçu maître en 1742

Pair of corners Paris, Louis XV period Black varnished wood veneer, Chinese lacquer panels, gilt bronze, Breche d'Alep
marble Stamp : IDUBOIS et JME H. 93 cm, W. 74 cm, D. 51 cm
This pair of corners with Chinese lacquer and black varnished panels presents a trendy bird and goat decoration in landscapes of flowered gardens. Slightly contoured in shape, they each open through two doors in the front. The corners of the lacquer panels are flanked by gilded bronze plant motifs. Gilded bronze scrolls, side bases, clogs and lamp heads complete the ornamentation of our furniture. They are each surmounted by a Breche d'Alep marble top.
Several creations similar to our pair of corners and also by Jacques Dubois can be mentioned, notably a model with trendy birds and flower gardens whose decoration is similar to our furniture (fig. 1) or a second model with floral and vegetal decoration presenting a strongly similar architecture (fig. 2).
Jacques Dubois (circa 1693-1763) was one of the most renowned Parisian cabinetmakers during the reign of Louis XV. Before being received as a master cabinetmaker in September 1742, he worked as a freelance worker in the Faubourg
Saint-Antoine district.
He made a large number of pieces of furniture, always of high quality, showing rigour in the selection of his veneers and in the choice of the bronze-makers with whom he collaborated. He is notably the author of some of the greatest masterpieces of Parisian cabinetmaking of the time, including the "Vergennes" flat desk in the Louvre Museum in Paris, and the Count Branicki's corner desk, now in the Getty Museum in
Malibu. Today some of his works are kept in the
Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Wallace Collection and Waddesdon Manor in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Cleveland
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