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Beschreibung

The first major book on Riesener, one of the greatest French cabinet-makers of all time.

Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) was one of the greatest French cabinet-makers of all time, supplying the court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and furnishing royal and aristocratic houses. His pieces are of exquisite design and superb workmanship, using the most costly materials throughout and becoming a byword for all that is admired in French furniture worldwide.

This first major monograph on Riesener traces his career in pre-revolutionary France, highlighting his work as the most celebrated cabinet maker of the Louis XVI period and focusing on the enduring appeal of his furniture through the nineteenth century and beyond. Based on the extensive collections of the Wallace Collection, Waddesdon Manor and the Royal Collection it is fully illustrated with new photography and includes much new research making it essential not only to art historians and collectors, but also to decorative arts enthusiasts and lovers of fine furniture.

The first major book on Riesener, one of the greatest French cabinet-makers of all time.

Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) was one of the greatest French cabinet-makers of all time, supplying the court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and furnishing royal and aristocratic houses. His pieces are of exquisite design and superb workmanship, using the most costly materials throughout and becoming a byword for all that is admired in French furniture worldwide.

This first major monograph on Riesener traces his career in pre-revolutionary France, highlighting his work as the most celebrated cabinet maker of the Louis XVI period and focusing on the enduring appeal of his furniture through the nineteenth century and beyond. Based on the extensive collections of the Wallace Collection, Waddesdon Manor and the Royal Collection it is fully illustrated with new photography and includes much new research making it essential not only to art historians and collectors, but also to decorative arts enthusiasts and lovers of fine furniture.

Über den Autor

Helen Jacobsen is senior curator and curator of French eighteenth-century decorative arts at the Wallace Collection.

Rufus Bird is Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art.

Mia Jackson is Curator of Decorative Arts at Waddesdon Manor.

Zusammenfassung
Despite the immense success Riesener garnered during his career, comparatively little has been written about him, and very little in English. The greatest museums of decorative art in the world are proud to display his work, and collectors and dealers alike are still hungry to buy furniture from his workshop
Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Riesener, Oeben & Vandercruse families

THE CABINETMAKER

Jean-Henri Riesener: a portrait sketch
Christian Baulez

A German in Paris
Laura Langelüddecke

Jean-Henri Riesener and the business of furniture-making
Carolyn Sargentson

A question of language: the royal furniture administration's accounts
Lindsay Macnaughton

'Executed in the taste of painting': Riesener's marquetry designs
Mia Jackson

Jean-Henri Riesener: the portraits
Juliet Carey

THE COLLECTORS

From Versailles to Windsor Castle: George IV and Riesener
Rufus Bird

Alteration and appropriation: the 4th Marquess of Hertford
and the taste for Riesener
Helen Jacobsen

Riesener and the Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor
Ulrich Leben

Buying from Britain: the development of a new market
Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

THE FURNITURE

Works in the Wallace Collection, the Royal Collection & Waddesdon Manor

THE MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES

Materials and techniques
Jürgen Huber

Visual glossary
Alexander Collins

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781781300909
ISBN-10: 1781300909
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Jacobsen, Helen
Bird, Rufus
Jackson, Mia
Hersteller: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 291 x 246 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Jacobsen
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2021
Gewicht: 1,894 kg
Artikel-ID: 117893012