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Jean-Henri Riesener

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Jean-Henri Riesener(German, 1734–1806)

Born in the Westphalian town of Gladbeck, Riesener entered the Paris workshop of his fellow countryman Jean-François Oeben at the age of twenty-one. He married Oeben’s widow in 1767, and was accepted as a master into the guild of menuisiers-ébénistes the following year. In 1774 he became ébéniste du Roi under Louis XVI, and for the next ten years he was a principal supplier of veneered furniture to the Crown. After 1785 the royal treasury could no longer afford him, but he carried out commissions for Marie-Antoinette until the Revolution, retiring in 1800.

Source: Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

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Wooden writing table with gilt-bronze decoration
Jean-Henri Riesener
1785–90
Secrétaire with Pictorial and Trellis Marquetry and gilt bronze decoration
Jean-Henri Riesener
ca. 1780 and 1790
Commode with Pictorial and Trellis Marquetry
Jean-Henri Riesener
ca. 1780, and 1791
Side Table with Quartered Veneer
Jean-Henri Riesener
ca. 1780–83
Side Table with Quartered Veneer
After Jean-Henri Riesener
19th or early 20th century
Front view of Neoclassical mahogany commode with open shelves on the side and gilt bronze mount…
Attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener
1785−90
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