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Martin Carlin
(1730 - 1785)
Secrétaire à abattant
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / image RMN-GP
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
fall front secretary
Louis XVI style
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About the artwork
Title:
Secrétaire à abattant
Periods:
modern age
18th century
Techniques:
cabinetwork (technique)
hard stone mosaic
marquetry
ebony (wood)
oak (wood)
bâti
rosewood
amaranth
veneer
fruit tree wood
Breccia stone
Dimensions:
1185 x 885
Inventory number:
OA11176
Detail:
Vers 1780
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Martin Carlin
Born:
1730
Dead:
1785
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Martin Carlin
(ca 1730 – 1785) was a Parisian ébéniste, born at Freiburg, who was received master at Paris in 1766. Carlin worked at first in the shop of Jean-François Oeben, whose sister he married. He set up independently in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an unfashionable quarter of Paris, where few of his wealthy clientele would have penetrated. Carlin sold his works exclusively to
marchands-merciers
such as Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre, who acted as…
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