Mechanical Writing Table

ca. between 1775 and 1780

David Roentgen German, 1743-1807

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Title Mechanical Writing Table

Artwork Date ca. between 1775 and 1780

Artist David Roentgen

Life Dates 1743-1807

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. German

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

Medium Marquetry inlay with ormolu mounts

Dimensions Overall: 29 × 29 1/4 × 20 1/2 inches (73.7 × 74.3 × 52.1 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. F71.65

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Marks Paper label, pasted to the bottom of the central drawer: [Duveen Brothers] 29193 Paper label, pasted to the bottom of the central drawer: [Duveen Brothers] An Old French 18th century Oval occasional table, inlaid marqueterie of ...., the top inlaid with landscape and figures, and ruins. Louis XVI period (1774-1789).

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913] (New York, New York, USA)

1915, (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1935, acquiredby Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

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

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Published References

Lady Dilke. French Furniture and Decoration in XVIIIth Century. London, 1901, p. 190.

Feulner, Adolf. Kunstgeschichte des Möbels seit dem Altertum. Berlin, 1927, pp. 558-559 (figs. 462-463).

Huth, Hans. Abraham und David Roetgen und ihre Neuwieder Möbelwekstatt. Berlin, 1928 (fig. 56).

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, 2 vols. Detroit, 1939, vol. I, not paginated.

Lunsingh Scheurleer, Th. H. Catalogus van Meubelen en Betimmeringen Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, 1952, pp. 366-367, no. 538 (figs. 85a-b).

Grigaut, Paul L. French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, no. 59.

Kreisel, Heinrich and Georg Himmelheber. Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels. Vol. 3 Klassizismus, Historismus, Jugendstil. Munich, 1973, p. 9 (fig. 9).

Greber, Josef Maria. Abraham and David Roentgen: Möbel Für Europa, 2 vols. Starnberg, 1980, vol. I, p. 232, vol. II, p. 62 (fig. 91), pp. 310-311 (figs. 613-615).

Fabian, Dietrich. Die Entwicklung der Roentgen-Schreibmöbel. Bad Neustadt an der Saale, 1982, pp. 60, 62-63 (figs. 91-92).

Ramond, Pierre. Marquetry. Newtown, 1989, p. 42.

Sales cat., Sotheby's. Zurich, June 4, 1992, lot 545.

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. 11, pp. 64-68, (ill.) p. 65.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

workshop of David Roentgen, Mechanical Writing Table, ca. between 1775 and 1780, marquetry inlay with ormolu mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, F71.65.