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Secrétaire
Creator
René DuboisFrench Artist · 1737–1799
All works by this person →René Dubois followed his father Jacques Dubois, becoming a master *ébéniste* when he was only eighteen years old. He continued to work for his father, using his father's stamp of *I DUBOIS,* and directed the family workshop with his mother after Jacques's death in 1763. Nine years later Dubois's mother relinquished control of the workshop, selling the existing stock to her son, who agreed to pay h
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- about 1775
- Medium
- Veneered with kingwood, tulipwood, and lemonwood, incised with colored mastic, set with studs of mother of pearl; gilt bronze mounts
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This secrétaire provided its owner with a display area fitted with glass doors at the top, a writing surface with pigeonholes concealed behind the fall front, and a storage cupboard at the bottom. The delicate, quatrefoil-patterned marquetry with mother-of-pearl inlay and the gilt bronze floral swags mounted at the top of the fall front soften its sharply rectilinear form. Although this secrétaire bears the stamp of the cabinetmaker Jacques Dubois, it was actually made by his son René. Both the form of the secrétaire and the cupboard with the glass doors above the central section are typical of René's style.
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