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Charles Cressent
(1685 - 1768)
Bureau plat
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
desk
Rocaille
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Color #929591
Color #a6814c
Color #c5c9c7
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Color #341c02
Color #836539
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About the artwork
Title:
Bureau plat
Periods:
modern age
18th century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
walnut tree (wood)
bâti
dorure
bronze
fir tree (wood)
gilded
amaranth
leather (material)
oak (wood)
veneer
satiné (bois)
satin
Dimensions:
850 x 2060
Inventory number:
OA5521
Detail:
Vers 1735-1740 (?). Provenance : ministère de la Guerre
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Charles Cressent
Born:
1685
Dead:
1768
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Charles Cressent
(1685–1768) was a French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style. As the second son of François Cressent, sculpteur du roi, and grandson of Charles Cressent, a furniture-maker of Amiens, who also became a sculptor, he inherited the tastes and aptitudes which were likely to make a finished designer and craftsman. Even more important perhaps was the fact that he was a pupil of André Charles Boulle. Trained in such surroundings, it is not surprising that…
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