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Pierre Denizot, maître in 1740.
The Wildenstein bureau plat closely corresponds with that stamped by the marchand-ébéniste Léonard Boudin delivered to Monsieur, the comte de Provence at Compiègne. Supplied by Joubert, like the Wildenstein commode (lot 155), this bureau plat was delivered on 1 July 1771. It is discussed in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p.272, fig 293. A further, less elaborate example was sold by Brigadier R.J. Cooper, Christie's London, 30 October 1947, lot 130 (to Partridge).
With its 'Etruscan' decoration and interlaced Greek-key frieze, this bureau plat reflects the goût Grec style introduced in the 1750s by the architect Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. Probably working in collaboration with a marchand-mercier such as Simon-Philippe Poirier, Le Lorrain's goût Grec style was first realized in the designs for the celebrated suite of furniture supplied for the Parisian hôtel of the amateur Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully circa 1755.
The evolution of this fundamental model of bureaux à la grecque was taken up in the 1760s by both Réné Dubois (1734-1809, who employed his father's stamp) and Philippe-Claude Montigny. Executed in either amaranth and tulipwood, the fact that une table de bois d'amaranthe à la grecque' was recorded in the inventory taken following the death of Jacques Dubois (d.1763), while Montigny himself was not elected maître until 1766, it seems fair to conclude that it was Dubois who initially devised this model. In the face of excessive demand, he in turn - acting in the capacity of a marchand-ébéniste - subcontracted to Montigny and possibly other ébénistes to supply him with bureaux of this form. On 12 March 1765 Dubois also executed a bureau for another marchand, Poirier, which was sold to George, 6th Earl of Coventry (1722-1809), whilst the long-standing popularity of the model is confirmed by the mention of bureaux plats à l'antique in the 1772 inventory taken after his death.
The Wildenstein bureau plat closely corresponds with that stamped by the marchand-ébéniste Léonard Boudin delivered to Monsieur, the comte de Provence at Compiègne. Supplied by Joubert, like the Wildenstein commode (lot 155), this bureau plat was delivered on 1 July 1771. It is discussed in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p.272, fig 293. A further, less elaborate example was sold by Brigadier R.J. Cooper, Christie's London, 30 October 1947, lot 130 (to Partridge).
With its 'Etruscan' decoration and interlaced Greek-key frieze, this bureau plat reflects the goût Grec style introduced in the 1750s by the architect Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. Probably working in collaboration with a marchand-mercier such as Simon-Philippe Poirier, Le Lorrain's goût Grec style was first realized in the designs for the celebrated suite of furniture supplied for the Parisian hôtel of the amateur Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully circa 1755.
The evolution of this fundamental model of bureaux à la grecque was taken up in the 1760s by both Réné Dubois (1734-1809, who employed his father's stamp) and Philippe-Claude Montigny. Executed in either amaranth and tulipwood, the fact that une table de bois d'amaranthe à la grecque' was recorded in the inventory taken following the death of Jacques Dubois (d.1763), while Montigny himself was not elected maître until 1766, it seems fair to conclude that it was Dubois who initially devised this model. In the face of excessive demand, he in turn - acting in the capacity of a marchand-ébéniste - subcontracted to Montigny and possibly other ébénistes to supply him with bureaux of this form. On 12 March 1765 Dubois also executed a bureau for another marchand, Poirier, which was sold to George, 6th Earl of Coventry (1722-1809), whilst the long-standing popularity of the model is confirmed by the mention of bureaux plats à l'antique in the 1772 inventory taken after his death.