409 - A carved wooden cabinet from Sumène; the two panels and the false door frame are decorated with floral baskets and plant motifs. On the pediment, a full-relief eagle surmounts an openwork design featuring a figure in a central niche and foliage scrolls and tritons on the sides - H. 265 x W. 189 x D. 64 cm - Sumène, circa 1700 - (restored and altered, particularly on the sides and in the paneled sections)

A carved wooden cabinet from Sumène; the two panels and the false door frame are decorated with floral baskets and plant motifs. On the pediment, a full-relief eagle surmounts an openwork design featuring a figure in a central niche and foliage scrolls and tritons on the sides - H. 265 x W. 189 x D. 64 cm - Sumène, circa 1700 - (restored and altered, particularly on the sides and in the paneled sections) The cabinet’s identification file contains, among other items, three handwritten letters dating from 1928 to 1938 (difficult to read: attached is a transcription of the first letter) from Mr. Henri Bauquier, founder in 1921 of the Musée du Vieux Nîmes and its first curator. Based on a stylistic comparison with a signed cupboard in the collections of the Musée du Vieux Nîmes, Henri Bauquier attributes the cabinet to Jacques BRES (1620–1717), a renowned cabinetmaker and sculptor from Sumène (Gard), and specifies that the artistic execution places the work between 1685 and 1710. Bibliographic reference for the cabinet cited for comparison: M. NOUGAREDE, P. TRARIEUX, L. PUECH, D. TRAVIER, A. CHEVAL—*Les Armoires figurées du Bas-Languedoc*—La Bibliothèque des Métiers and the Musée du Vieux Nîmes, Oct. 2000—p. 29