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File:Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé) MET DP102696.jpg

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Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Alexandre Jean Oppenordt  (1639–1715)  wikidata:Q2833357
 
Alternative names
Alexandre-Jean Oppenord; Alexandre Jean Oppenoordt
Description French cabinetmaker and marqueteur
Date of birth/death 1639 Edit this at Wikidata 16 April 1715 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gelderland Paris
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q2833357
Jean Bérain the Elder  (1640–1711)  wikidata:Q1373528
 
Jean Bérain the Elder
Alternative names
Jean Berain I
Jean Berain
Jean Bérain
Jean Berain the Elder
Jean Bérain the Elder
Description French designer, decorator, drawer and engraver
father of Jean Berain II
Date of birth/death 4 June 1640 (baptised) 24 January 1711 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Saint-Mihiel Paris
Work period 1655 Edit this at Wikidata–1711 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1373528
Title
Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Object type French, Paris; Desk with folding top; Woodwork-Furniture
Description
With a folding top that lifts up to reveal a narrow writing surface, this desk is known in French as a bureau brisé ( literally, “broken desk”). Introduced about 1669, this type of writing table remained fashionable until the early years of the eighteenth century, when it was replaced by the more practical, flat-topped bureau plat. The Museum’s desk was commissioned with another almost identical example or Louis XIV’s Petit Cabinet, a small private room in the north wing of the Château de Versailles, and is one of the few extant pieces of furniture made for the personal use of the Sun King. The exterior is embellished with marquetry of tortoiseshell and engraved brass, known as Boulle work, after the French royal cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732), who was a true master of the technique. A thin sheet of red-tinted tortoiseshell was laid atop a thin sheet of brass, and an intricate pattern was cut through both layers before they were separated. The Museum’s desk received the more beautiful version of the decoration (so-called première partie), where the tortoiseshell forms the ground enriched with inlays of cutout brass. The pendant desk was veneered with the “leftover” materials, consisting of a brass ground inlaid with cutout tortoiseshell (contre partie). Without wasting any of the exotic tortoiseshell or the metal, it was thus possible to produce an identical pair, with the distinction that the decoration of the one desk was the exact reverse of the other. Jean Bérain the Elder was responsible for the design of the resplendent marquetry, which was executed by the Dutch-born cabinetmaker Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt, who on July 25, 1685, was paid 240 livres for his work. Richly adorned with royal symbols, strapwork, and acanthus scrolls, the top of the bureau brisé shows in the center a sunburst—symbol of Apollo, the sun god, to whom Louis XIV likened himself—a crown, and a crossed-L monogram. Openwork fleurs-de-lis (symbols of the French monarchy) inscribed with smaller crossed-L monograms embellish the corners. The hinged sections that allow the top to open are straddled by two lyres, the musical instrument of Apollo. This very specific marquetry decoration and the overall measurements make it possible to identify this writing desk and its mate in a royal inventory drawn up in 1718 after Louis’s death. Many pieces of furniture and furnishings made for the French court were sold during the French Revolution but this small writing desk and its pair had already left the royal collections during the ancien régime. Considered old-fashioned by the middle of the eighteenth century, they were auctioned off in July 1751 as two lots and appear to have led separate existences ever since. The Museum’s bureau brisé was acquired by the cabinetmaker and furniture dealer Gilles Joubert (1689–1775) for 40 livres. Its subsequent history remains largely a mystery (Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, 2010).
Date circa 1685
date QS:P571,+1685-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Oak, pine, walnut veneered with ebony, rosewood, and marquetry of tortoiseshell and engraved brass; gilt bronze and steel
Dimensions 30 5/16 x 41 3/4 x 23 3/8 in. (77 x 106 x 59.4cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Accession number
1986.365.3
Credit line Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1986
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207667

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Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé), marquetry by Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt, designed and possibly engraved by Jean Berain (MET, 1986.365.3)

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