Art Institute of Chicago
Console Table
Attributed to François RoumierLinkedCulture matchlcp-97acb183b050
- Date
- c. 1735
- Medium
- Wood, oak, gesso, and gilding
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 25857
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The symmetric design of this table, which was meant to be attached to a wall, places it in the early phase of the Rococo style known as Régence, or French Regency. Named for Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, who served as regent to Louis XV for eight years, the style marked a transition from courtly Baroque formality and grandeur to a more sophisticated, frivolous, and intimate sensibility. By the time Louis XV took power, however, the style had evolved into the full-blown asymmetry of the Rococo.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Philip K. Wrigley through The Antiquarian Society
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- Object type
- AAT300037336
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Decorative Console Tables, 17th-18th CenturyThese objects are elegant console tables from European courts (primarily France, Italy, and Germany) of the 17th-18th centuries, characterized by ornamental materials like gilded wood, marble tops, and decorative inlays
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