Jean-Henri Riesener: Cabinetmaker to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1781300909 ISBN 13: 9781781300909

Verlag: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2020

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This first major monograph on cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener traces his life and career, bringing new insights into his business practice, designs and construction techniques.

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Helen Jacobsen is Executive Director of The Attingham Trust and former Senior Curator and Curator of French eighteenth-century decorative arts at the Wallace Collection. She has curated exhibitions and published on French decorative arts and collecting history.

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Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) was one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of all time. From humble beginnings as a German immigrant in Paris, he found fame through the delivery of a magnificent roll-top desk to Louis XV in 1769 and went on to become Marie-Antoinette's favourite cabinetmaker, supplying the queen and the court of Louis XVI with sumptuous furniture of superb quality. Renowned for his exquisite marquetry and refined designs, his pieces were ornamented with spectacular gilt-bronze mounts made by some of the greatest metalworkers in Paris. In the nineteenth century, Riesener's name became associated with the very best of Louis XVI-period French furniture; his pieces continue to be highly sought after and are found in major museums worldwide.

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• Verlag: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1781300909
• ISBN 13: 9781781300909
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Jacobsen Helen
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