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Charles Cressent
(1685 - 1768)
Commode dite commode aux singes
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Les frères Chuzeville
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
monkey
chest of drawers
Louis XV style
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About the artwork
Title:
Commode dite commode aux singes
Periods:
18th century
modern age
Techniques:
cabinetwork (technique)
bronze
fir tree (wood)
amaranth
oak (wood)
walnut tree (wood)
satiné (bois)
dorure
bâti
frisage (bois)
coloured marble
Dimensions:
900 x 1435
Inventory number:
OA6868
Detail:
Vers 1745
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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