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拍品专文
Pierre Garnier (1726-1800), maître in 1742.
Jacques Dautriche (1725 to 1728 - 1778), maître in 1765.
With its particularly clean silhouette and emphasis on the natural beauty of exotic woods, so tastefully accented by restrained ormolu mounts, this elegant secrétaire à abattant epitomizes the most restrained version of Neoclassicism in the 1770s. Garnier executed a number of furnishings in this somber style and comparable pieces include an imposing bureau à cylindre formerly in the Ann and Gordon Getty collection, sold Christie's, New York, 22 October 2022, lot 443 ($189,000), and a pair of commodes in the Swedish Royal collections at Gripsholm Palace (see C. Huchet de Quénetain, Pierre Garnier, Paris, 2003, p. 49). Garnier often subcontracted work to fellow ébéniste Dautriche, whose stamp also appears on the present lot.
PIERRE GARNIER
During the course of a long and illustrious career, Pierre Garnier embraced the range of evolving eighteenth-century French styles from Rococo to Neoclassicism. As one of the foremost ébénistes of the 1760s and 1770s established on the rue Neuve des Petits Champs, Garnier was one of the protagonists of the austere, architectural goût grec style, which had been introduced in such an uncompromising fashion by connoisseur-collectors at that time. As early as 1761, Garnier was producing furniture after the designs of the architect Charles de Wailly, with one piece described in L'Avant-Coureur as being 'in the Antique taste,' see A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 247. His other distinguished commissions include pieces for the Duchesse de Mazarin whose hôtel was renowned for being a vanguard of fashion and a 'temple of taste', and for the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour. Today, exemplary pieces by Garnier are held in such prestigious public collections as the Louvre in Paris, The Wallace Collection in London and the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.
Jacques Dautriche (1725 to 1728 - 1778), maître in 1765.
With its particularly clean silhouette and emphasis on the natural beauty of exotic woods, so tastefully accented by restrained ormolu mounts, this elegant secrétaire à abattant epitomizes the most restrained version of Neoclassicism in the 1770s. Garnier executed a number of furnishings in this somber style and comparable pieces include an imposing bureau à cylindre formerly in the Ann and Gordon Getty collection, sold Christie's, New York, 22 October 2022, lot 443 ($189,000), and a pair of commodes in the Swedish Royal collections at Gripsholm Palace (see C. Huchet de Quénetain, Pierre Garnier, Paris, 2003, p. 49). Garnier often subcontracted work to fellow ébéniste Dautriche, whose stamp also appears on the present lot.
PIERRE GARNIER
During the course of a long and illustrious career, Pierre Garnier embraced the range of evolving eighteenth-century French styles from Rococo to Neoclassicism. As one of the foremost ébénistes of the 1760s and 1770s established on the rue Neuve des Petits Champs, Garnier was one of the protagonists of the austere, architectural goût grec style, which had been introduced in such an uncompromising fashion by connoisseur-collectors at that time. As early as 1761, Garnier was producing furniture after the designs of the architect Charles de Wailly, with one piece described in L'Avant-Coureur as being 'in the Antique taste,' see A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 247. His other distinguished commissions include pieces for the Duchesse de Mazarin whose hôtel was renowned for being a vanguard of fashion and a 'temple of taste', and for the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour. Today, exemplary pieces by Garnier are held in such prestigious public collections as the Louvre in Paris, The Wallace Collection in London and the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.