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Pierre-Philippe Thomire
(1751 - 1843)
Secrétaire
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Fontainebleau) / Gérard Blot
Fontainebleau, château
http://www.musee-chateau-fontainebleau.fr/
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Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Fontainebleau) / Gérard Blot
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fall front secretary
Empire style
pilaster
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About the artwork
Title:
Secrétaire
Periods:
19th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XIXth century
Techniques:
bronze
cabinetwork (technique)
brass
dorure
white marble
yew tree wood
gilded
Dimensions:
1230 x 895
Inventory number:
F3873
Location:
Fontainebleau, château
About the author(s)
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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