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Cabinet (one of a pair)
Creator
Adam WeisweilerFrench Artist · 1744–1820
All works by this person →Like many other important *ébénistes* of the 1700s, Adam Weisweiler was German-born. Although scholars know nothing about his apprenticeship and early training, church records show that he was established in Paris in 1777, the year he was married. He became a *maître-ébéniste* (master cabinetmaker) in 1778, set up his workshop in the unfashionable quarter of Paris on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Anto
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1785; pietra dura plaques mid-17th–mid-18th century
- Medium
- Oak, pine, and beech veneered with ebony and mahogany; pewter stringing; set with pietra dure plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; portor d'Italie marble top
- Culture
- French (cabinet); Italian (pietra dure)
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
From the Renaissance, art connoisseurs valued naturally colorful and rare hardstones, known as *pietre dure*, especially when they were arranged by artisans into plaques of mosaic patterns or pictorial reliefs. Often, the more splendid plaques were mounted into custom made and suitably grand cabinets. The *pietre dure* plaques on this cabinet date from the mid-1600s to the mid-1700s; they were probably made by Italian craftsmen working in Rome, Florence, or Paris at the Gobelins manufactory. This particular cabinet passed through the Revolutionary-era Parisian art market in 1790 and 1793 before being acquired by the English ambassador to Saint-Petersburg, Russia, in 1808.
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