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Pierre Garnier, maître in 1742.
During the course of a long and illustrious career, Pierre Garnier embraced the range of evolving 18th century French styles from Rococo to Neoclassicism. As one of the foremost ébénistes of the 1760s and 1770s established in the rue Neuve des Petits Champs, Garnier was one of the protagonists of the austere, architectural goût Grec style which had been introduced in such an uncompromising fashion by connoisseur-collectors at that time. The first experimental items of furniture in the goût Grec were conceived and produced as early as around 1754-56 with the celebrated bureau plat executed for the connoisseur Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, probably by Joseph Baumhauer (d. 1772) and Philippe Caffiéri (1714-74) to the designs of Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1714-59), now in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.
As early as 1761, Garnier was producing furniture after the designs of the architect Charles de Wailly, with one piece described in L'Avant-Coureur as being 'in the Antique taste' (see A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 247). His other distinguished commissions include pieces for the Duchesse de Mazarin whose hôtel was renowned for being a vanguard of fashion and a 'temple of taste', and for the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour. Today, exemplary pieces by Garnier are held in such prestigious public collections as the Louvre, Paris, the Wallace Collection, London, the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, and the Huntington Library, San Marino.
The present example, with its architectural stop-fluted pilasters and rich veneers, directly relates to other pieces created by Garnier, including a secrétaire, stamped by both Garnier and Dautriche, to whom Garnier presumably sub-contracted the commission (ibid., fig. 260). Similar stop-fluted pilasters also feature on the bas d'armoires supplied by Garnier to the Marquis de Marigny (ibid., fig. 256).
During the course of a long and illustrious career, Pierre Garnier embraced the range of evolving 18th century French styles from Rococo to Neoclassicism. As one of the foremost ébénistes of the 1760s and 1770s established in the rue Neuve des Petits Champs, Garnier was one of the protagonists of the austere, architectural goût Grec style which had been introduced in such an uncompromising fashion by connoisseur-collectors at that time. The first experimental items of furniture in the goût Grec were conceived and produced as early as around 1754-56 with the celebrated bureau plat executed for the connoisseur Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, probably by Joseph Baumhauer (d. 1772) and Philippe Caffiéri (1714-74) to the designs of Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1714-59), now in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.
As early as 1761, Garnier was producing furniture after the designs of the architect Charles de Wailly, with one piece described in L'Avant-Coureur as being 'in the Antique taste' (see A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 247). His other distinguished commissions include pieces for the Duchesse de Mazarin whose hôtel was renowned for being a vanguard of fashion and a 'temple of taste', and for the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour. Today, exemplary pieces by Garnier are held in such prestigious public collections as the Louvre, Paris, the Wallace Collection, London, the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, and the Huntington Library, San Marino.
The present example, with its architectural stop-fluted pilasters and rich veneers, directly relates to other pieces created by Garnier, including a secrétaire, stamped by both Garnier and Dautriche, to whom Garnier presumably sub-contracted the commission (ibid., fig. 260). Similar stop-fluted pilasters also feature on the bas d'armoires supplied by Garnier to the Marquis de Marigny (ibid., fig. 256).