About the Artwork
Writing and Work Table
ca. 1755
Gaspard Feilt
active in Paris ca. 1735-1763
German
Unknown
Amaranth, tulipwood, bois satiné, and other woods on oak carcass with gilt-bronze mounts
Overall: 28 7/8 × 25 3/4 × 17 1/4 inches (73.3 × 65.4 × 43.8 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.200
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamp, on underside of the back rail: G. FEILT and C.M. COCHOIS [three JME marks]
Provenance
Chilton House [possibly the Chilton House in Wiltshire that was demolished in 1965]
March 8, 1871, Chilton sale
Comte de Gramont (Paris, France)
June 15, 1934, (Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, France) lot 87
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)
1935-1971, acquired through (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA) by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Duveen Brothers. A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1939, unpaginated.
Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43–51.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, pp. 38-40, no. 1 (ill.).
Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 436.
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Gaspard Feilt, Writing and Work Table, ca. 1755, amaranth, tulipwood, bois satiné, and other woods on oak carcass with gilt-bronze mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.200.
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