About the Artwork
Combination Writing Table and Worktable
c. 1770
Godefroy Dester
active 1774-1790
French
Unknown
Carcase of fir and oak with marquetry veneer and gilt-bronze mounts
28 x 22 x 14 1/8 in. (71.12 x 55.88 x 35.9 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.210
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamped under both the left and right sides of the drawer-case is the signature: P. Garnier
Provenance
Viscount Powerscourt, County Wicklow
Duveen Brothers (dealer), New York
acquired from Duveen in 1932 by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI
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Lunsingh Scheurleer, Th. H., CATALOGUS VAN MEUBELEN EN BETIMMERINGEN, RIJKSMUSEUM, Amsterdam 1952, p. 341, no. 499
Nicolay, Jean, L'ART ET LA MANIE`RE DES MAI^TRES ÉBÉNISTES FRANÇAIS AU XVIIIe SIE`CLE, 2 vols., Paris, 1956-59, vol. I, p. 149, fig. B
Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51
Dell, T. et al, THE DODGE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ART AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 9,
pp. 60-62, color repr. p. 61 (entry by T. Dell)
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attributed to Godefroy Dester, Combination Writing Table and Worktable, c. 1770, Carcase of fir and oak with marquetry veneer and gilt-bronze mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.210.
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