Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751 - 1843),

Guillaume Benneman (1750 - 1811)

Commode à trois vantaux

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

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Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

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About the artwork

Title:

Commode à trois vantaux

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Techniques:

cabinetwork (technique)

marbre bleu turquin

Inventory number:

OA5504

Detail:

Estampille : Guillaume Benneman. Bronzes : P.-P Thomire et E.-J. Forestier. Exécutée pour Madame Thierry de Ville d'Avray : chambre de l'hôtel du Garde-Meuble (Paris), puis cabinet du Conseil au palais des Tuileries en 1792

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Pierre-Philippe Thomire

Born:

1751

Dead:

1843

Country:

France

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Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843) a French sculptor, was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes (bronzes d'ameublement) established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft that the French called that of the fondeur-ciseleur, "founder-finisher". In his pre-Revolutionary training, Thomire appeared first as a ciseleur, in… Read more...

Author:

Guillaume Benneman

Also known as:

Guillaume Bennemann

Born:

1750

Dead:

1811

Country:

France

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Guillaume Beneman or Benneman (1750 - after 1811) was a prominent Parisian ébéniste, one of several of German extraction, working in the early neoclassical Louis XVI style, which was already fully developed when he arrived in Paris. Beneman arrived in Paris already trained; he was settled in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine when he was received master in 1785 by royal command, and rapidly became the last of the royal cabinet-makers before the French Revolution, working under the direction (and… Read more...