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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 21 (1986)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 21

"A Japanned Secretaire in the Linsky Collection with Decorations After Boucher and Pillement"

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O.
1986
9 pages
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Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide is responsible for French and Dutch decorative arts. She was the co-curator of an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center on the origins of French decorative arts at The Met. From 2017–2018, she co-organized the exhibition Visitors to Versailles, (1682–1789), held at the Château de Versailles and The Met. Currently, she is preparing a thematic exhibition about scent. She has lectured and written extensively on various aspects of European Decorative Arts, including new acquisitions such as a pair of candelabra for the surtout de table of the Duc d’Orléans. Her most recent book, How to Read European Decorative Arts, was published in 2023 and is accompanied by an installation in Gallery 521.

She is a graduate of the Free University in Amsterdam and Leiden University.

Selected publications

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle. “Buying from Britain: The Development of a new Market for Riesener,” in Helen Jacobsen et al., Jean Henri Riesener (London: The Wallace Collection, 2020), pp. 83-89.

———. “Cornelis Hop (1685-1762), Dutch Ambassador to the Court of Louis XV,” in Mark Ledbury and Robert Wellington, eds., The Versailles Effect; Objects, Lives, and After Lives of the Domaine (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 193-212.

MetPublications: Selected publications by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

Daniëlle Grosheide

Drop-front secretaire (secrètaire à abattant), René Dubois, Painted and varnished oak, veneered with European lacquer, mahogany, purplewood, gilt-bronze mounts, French, Paris
René Dubois
ca. 1770–75
Fire, from The Four Elements, Pierre Alexandre Aveline  French, Etching and engraving
Multiple artists/makers
1738–49
Air, from The Four Elements, Pierre Alexandre Aveline  French, Etching and engraving
Multiple artists/makers
1738–49
Earth, from The Four Elements, Pierre Alexandre Aveline  French, Etching and engraving
Multiple artists/makers
1738–49
Fire, François Boucher  French, Red chalk
François Boucher
ca. 1740
The Five Senses, François Boucher  French, Etching and engraving
François Boucher
Gabriel Huquier
1720–70