Cabinet, ca. 1785

  • Etienne Levasseur, French, 1721-1798

Lacquered wood, ormolu and marble

  • Overall: 37 3/8 × 47 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (94.9 × 120.7 × 47 cm) Overall (cabinet): 36 1/8 × 46 5/8 × 17 1/2 inches (91.8 × 118.4 × 44.5 cm) Overall (marble top): 1 1/8 × 47 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (2.9 × 120.7 × 47 cm)

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

71.204

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South
  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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)

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.

Etienne Levasseur, Cabinet, ca. 1785, lacquered wood, ormolu and marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.204.