Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant), Adam Weisweiler (attributed to), c. 1790 - c. 1795

Identification

Title(s)

Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant)
Secretaire met Japans lakwerk

Object type

furniture

Object number

BK-16653

Inscriptions / marks

inscription: ‘haut’
inscription: ‘FAIT A SOLINGEN’

Description

Secretaire versierd met Japans lakwerk, ebbenhout op eikenhouten kern en verguld brons. Het meubel rust op een open onderstel met geslingerd raam. De regel met lade aan de voorkant, alsmede de voor- en zijkanten van het bovenstel, zijn versierd met panelen van lakwerk met voorstellingen in goud op zwart fond binnen verguld bronzen randen. De hoekstijlen van het bovenstel bestaan uit vrouwelijke hermcaryatiden van verguld brons. Het meubel, met marmeren dekplaat, draagt vele randen en beslag van verguld brons.

Creation

Artist

furniture worker: Adam Weisweiler (attributed to)

Place

Paris

Dating

c. 1790 - c. 1795

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

lacquering / gilding

Measurements

height 131.5 cm × width 87.5 cm × depth 42.0 cm
width 81.5 cm × depth 35.5 cm

Subject

What

ornaments ~ art

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transfer 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Hannah Mathilde Freifrau von Rothschild (1832-1924), Grüneburg, Frankfurt am Main, 1931;{Feulner 1931a, p. 491; Von Falke 1936, p. 342, no. Mo.66.} …; collection Baroness von Schey née von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1883-1925), Frankfurt am Main;{Note RMA; Baarsen 2013, pp. 446-451 , no. 110.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 342, no. Mo.66.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Paris 1650-1900 : decorative arts in the Rijksmuseum, Reinier J. Baarsen, p. 446-451, cat.nr. 110
Weisweiler, Patricia Lemonnier, p. 67, 112, afb., cat.nr. 71
Catalogus van meubelen en betimmeringen, Theodoor Herman Lusingh Scheurleer, afb. 86, cat.nr. 442
Katalog der Sammlung F[ritz] M[annheimer], P.342, cat.nr. Mo.66
Adolf Feulner, 'Französische Möbel in Deutschland', Pantheon 8 (1931), p. 490-492, afb.

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