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Lot Essay
André Louis Gilbert, maître in 1774.
Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.
This secrétaire à motifs d'architecture forms part of a group of furniture decorated with pictorial marquetry panels depicting classical capriccio and views of Rome in the manner of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) and Hubert Robert (1733-1808). It shows the unrivalled talent of Gilbert as a specialised marqueteur, who sold his virtuose marquetry panels to his fellow confreres and marchand-merciers, in this case to Boudin. The marquetry is often closely related in design and execution, using panels of stained wood, often green, and some ivory or mother-of-pearl inlay (G. de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French Eighteenth Century Marqueteur', Burlington Magazine, May 1965, pp. 240 - 250 and July 1965, pp. 356 - 363, and 'Ruins in Marquetry', Apollo, January, 1968, pp.12-16).
Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.
This secrétaire à motifs d'architecture forms part of a group of furniture decorated with pictorial marquetry panels depicting classical capriccio and views of Rome in the manner of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) and Hubert Robert (1733-1808). It shows the unrivalled talent of Gilbert as a specialised marqueteur, who sold his virtuose marquetry panels to his fellow confreres and marchand-merciers, in this case to Boudin. The marquetry is often closely related in design and execution, using panels of stained wood, often green, and some ivory or mother-of-pearl inlay (G. de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French Eighteenth Century Marqueteur', Burlington Magazine, May 1965, pp. 240 - 250 and July 1965, pp. 356 - 363, and 'Ruins in Marquetry', Apollo, January, 1968, pp.12-16).