Description
COIFFEUSE in flamed mahogany veneer. Top opens in three sections, the center one with a mirror. Front opening to five drawers, four of which are boxed. Tapered and fluted legs. Rich ornamentation of chased and gilded bronzes: cornice, framing moldings with heart-shaped stripes, hoof rings. Attributed to LEVASSEUR. Bellevue château mark. Label marked: Toilette du Cabinet de Mme Victoire. 71 x 91 x 55.5 cm Etienne Levasseur, cabinetmaker, received master's degree in Paris in 1766. The Château de Bellevue was built on the Meudon plain between 1748 and 1751 for Madame de Pompadour. After his accession in 1775, Louis XVI gave it to his aunts Adélaïde, Victoire and Sophie. They enlarged and further furnished it, with the help of the Darnault brothers, merchant-merchants. Etienne Levasseur was one of the cabinetmakers chosen. Our dressing table, with its elegantly restrained ornamentation of bronze moldings, is not unlike a writing table supplied by this cabinetmaker (inv.T.539c) (reproduced in Le mobilier de Versailles, T. 2, by P. Arizzoli-Clémentel, Faton, 2002).
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COIFFEUSE in flamed mahogany veneer. Top opens in three sections, the center one with a mirror. Front opening to five drawers, four of which are boxed. Tapered and fluted legs. Rich ornamentation of chased and gilded bronzes: cornice, framing moldings with heart-shaped stripes, hoof rings. Attributed to LEVASSEUR. Bellevue château mark. Label marked: Toilette du Cabinet de Mme Victoire. 71 x 91 x 55.5 cm Etienne Levasseur, cabinetmaker, received master's degree in Paris in 1766. The Château de Bellevue was built on the Meudon plain between 1748 and 1751 for Madame de Pompadour. After his accession in 1775, Louis XVI gave it to his aunts Adélaïde, Victoire and Sophie. They enlarged and further furnished it, with the help of the Darnault brothers, merchant-merchants. Etienne Levasseur was one of the cabinetmakers chosen. Our dressing table, with its elegantly restrained ornamentation of bronze moldings, is not unlike a writing table supplied by this cabinetmaker (inv.T.539c) (reproduced in Le mobilier de Versailles, T. 2, by P. Arizzoli-Clémentel, Faton, 2002).
