Print, Designs for Furniture

This is a Print. It was designed by André-Charles Boulle and published by Jean Mariette and Pierre Mariette and engraved by André-Charles Boulle and print maker: André-Charles Boulle. It is dated ca. 1715 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 24 × 36.5 cm (9 7/16 × 14 3/8 in.) Platemark: 21 × 31.5 cm (8 1/4 × 12 3/8 in.) Image: 20.3 × 30.8 cm (8 in. × 12 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Mariette excudit

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, upper left: Ecritoire de cabinet qui porte deux chan=/deliers; lettered upper center: Commodes de deux dessieins differerens; lettered upper right: Serre-papier veu par-/ le profil; lettered lower right: Armoire qui souvre par les/ deux bouts, et sur la quelle est/ pose le Serre papier; numbered lower right: 3; lettered lower center: Desseins differens de Bureaux de cabinet dans l’aspect qu’ils presentent, etant/ veus de face, Et placés à côté de leur Serre-papier; Coffre de toilette monté sur son/ pied; lettered in plate, center: Ecritoire de cabinet

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