Writing Table

ca. between 1780 and 1785

Jean-Henri Riesener French, 1734-1806

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Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Writing Table

Artwork Date ca. between 1780 and 1785

Artist Jean-Henri Riesener

Life Dates 1734-1806

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Carcase of oak and fir with tulipwood, holly and amaranth with gilt-bronze mounts and stamped leather

Dimensions Overall: 29 3/4 × 64 × 32 1/4 inches (75.6 × 162.6 × 81.9 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.195

Markings

Marks Stamp, under the right side rail: J. H. Riesener Stamp, under the right kneehole rail: 10488 [the 4 inverted; with the same number painted in white under the central front rail] Marks, on paper label, affixed to the bottom of the right drawer, in ink: 29622 [Duveen Bros. inventory number] marks, on a Duveen label: An old French writing table of the period of Louis XVI (1774-1789) by J. H. Riesener, French Ebeniste. From the Stieglitz museum at Leningrad. Illustrated in Mobilier Francais en Russie. 20th century French customs labels, affixed to the underside of the carcass at left rear: [two labels]

Provenance

Stieglitz Museum (St. Petersburg);
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1932-1971, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Roche, Denis. Le mobilier français en Russie, vol. 2. Paris, 1913, p. LXIV.

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, [unpaginated].

A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, [unpaginated].

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51; p. 46 (ill.).

"La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (January 1972): p. 93 (fig. 329), [supplement].

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, pp. 75-78, no. 14; p. 77 (ill.).

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Jean-Henri Riesener, Writing Table, ca. between 1780 and 1785, carcase of oak and fir with tulipwood, holly and amaranth with gilt-bronze mounts and stamped leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.195.