This console derives from a design by the décorateur-dessinateur Richard de Lalonde engraved by him circa 1780 and illustrated in Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, p. 402, no. 80. A related Louis XVI console in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum is illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 62, no. 88.