Lot Essay
A similar armoire is at the National Renaissance Museum, Chateau d'Ecouen, and illustrated in M.Blanc, Le Mobilier Francais, Moyen-Age Renaissance, Paris 1999, p. 81. This armoire belongs to a group called Ile de France, characteristic of the Second School of Fontainbleau, of architectural form enhanced by the allegorical decoration of low relief and inlays of veined marble creating a polychrome effect. This one incorporates a design full of figures of high relief and torso columns.