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after Guillaume Benneman
(1750 - 1811)
Secrétaire à abattant
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Fontainebleau) / Gérard Blot
Fontainebleau, château
http://www.musee-chateau-fontainebleau.fr/
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Keywords:
lion (animal)
fall front secretary
angel
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About the artwork
Title:
Secrétaire à abattant
Techniques:
bronze
mahogany
gilded
patiné
dorure
Dimensions:
1465 x 1115
Inventory number:
F221c
Location:
Fontainebleau, château
About the author(s)
Author:
after
Guillaume Benneman
Also known as:
Guillaume Bennemann
Born:
1750
Dead:
1811
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
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…
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