Cabinet

ca. 1785

Etienne Levasseur French, 1721-1798

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Cabinet

Artwork Date ca. 1785

Artist Etienne Levasseur

Life Dates 1721-1798

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Lacquered wood, ormolu friezes and marble

Dimensions Overall: 37 5/8 × 47 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (95.6 × 121 × 47 cm) Overall (cabinet): 36 1/8 × 46 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches (91.8 × 118.7 × 44.5 cm) Overall (marble top): 1 1/4 × 47 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (3.2 × 121 × 47 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.203

Markings

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Marks Stamp, on each rear corner of the top: E. Levasseur [accompanied by the JME guild mark] Painted, in red on the upper back rail, at right: NO 3.-962 Painted, in black, on the central back panel: CEBD [in Cyrillic script over the number] 1836 [crossed-out in red] 1836 [also crossed out in red] Marks, in blue wax crayon, on the top: 237 Paper label, attached to the lower front rail, in ink: N 2003 Marks, on underside of the marble top, in blue crayon: K 2003 Label: Chenue [Parisian packing and shipping firm] [circular French customs stamps] Label, under marbel top [possibly on 71.203 or 71.204]: Pottier [Parisian shipping firm]

Provenance

Russian Imperial Collection (Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia)

June 5, 1929, sold by the government of the Soviet Union (USSR) at auction (Lepke's, Berlin, Germany) lots 211 and 212

(Founès, Paris, France)

1931, acquired through (L. Alavoine, New York, New York, USA) by Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1931-1971, Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sales cat., Lepke's. Berlin, June 4-5, 1929, lots 211 and 212.

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.

"La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79, January 1972, supplement, p. 93, (fig. 328).

Darr, Alan Phipps. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, p. 26 (fig. 010) (ill.).

Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 16, pp. 82-86, (ill.) pp. 84-85.

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Etienne Levasseur, Cabinet, ca. 1785, lacquered wood, ormolu friezes and marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.203.