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François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
(6th Feb, 1770 - 18th Aug, 1841)
,
Pierre-Philippe Thomire
(1751 - 1843)
,
after Charles Percier
(22nd Aug, 1764 - 5th Sep, 1838)
Serre-bijoux de l'impératrice Joséphine dit Grand Ecrin
1809
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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jewellery case
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About the artwork
Title:
Serre-bijoux de l'impératrice Joséphine dit Grand Ecrin
Periods:
19th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XIXth century
Techniques:
dorure
cabinetwork (technique)
mother-of-pearl
yew tree wood
amaranth
gilded
bronze
Dimensions:
2720 x 2000
Inventory number:
OA10246
Detail:
Provenance : grande chambre à coucher (palais des Tuileries). Modèle de Percier et de Chaudet (Déesse de la Terre). Voir aussi OA10247-10248
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
Also known as:
Jacob Desmalter
François-Honoré Jacob
Born:
6th Feb, 1770
Dead:
18th Aug, 1841
Country:
France
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François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
(1770–1841) oversaw one of the most successful and influential furniture workshops in Paris, from 1796 to 1825. The son of Georges Jacob, an outstanding chairmaker who worked in the Louis XVI style and Directoire styles of the earlier phase of Neoclassicism and executed many royal commissions, Jacob-Desmalter, in partnership with his older brother, assumed the family workshop in 1796. Freed from the Parisian guild restrictions of the Ancien Régime, the…
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Author:
Pierre-Philippe Thomire
Born:
1751
Dead:
1843
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
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…
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Author:
after
Charles Percier
Also known as:
Charles Percier- Bassant
Charles Percier-Bassant
Born:
22nd Aug, 1764
Dead:
5th Sep, 1838
Country:
France
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Charles Percier
(
[ʃaʁl pɛʁsje]
; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major…
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