"French Royal Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 3 (Winter, 2006)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 3

"French Royal Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O.
2006
48 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

Jean-Baptise Rigaud
18th century
Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé), Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt  Dutch, Oak, pine, walnut veneered with ebony, rosewood, and marquetry of tortoiseshell and engraved brass; gilt bronze and steel, French, Paris
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt
Jean Berain
ca. 1685
Jean-Baptise Rigaud
18th century
Panels from the shutters formerly in the Chapel Room at Versailles, Robert de Cotte  French, Oak, French
Robert de Cotte
Jules Degoullons
ca. 1710
Louis XV (1710–1774) as a Child, Hyacinthe Rigaud  French, Oil on canvas
Hyacinthe Rigaud
ca. 1716–24
Stretcher from a console table from the Queen's bed chamber at Versailles, Jules Degoullons  French, Oak, gilt, French
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1730
Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair), Carved and gilded walnut; silk velvet with gold trim (not original), French, Paris
French, Paris
ca. 1735–39
Writing table (bureau plat), Gilles Joubert  French, Lacquered oak, gilt-bronze mounts, lined with modern leather, French, Paris
Gilles Joubert
1759
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger  French, White marble, French, Paris
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger
Mme de Pompadour
1757
Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), Martin Carlin  French, Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, and stained sycamore; mahogany; seventeen soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; velvet (not original), French, Paris and Sèvres
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1768
Barometer-thermometer (baromètre et thermomètre), Claude-Siméon Passemant, Oak, gilt-bronze, glass, enamel, and soft-paste porcelain, French
Claude-Siméon Passemant
Sèvres Manufactory
1769
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux), Martin Carlin  French, Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, stained sycamore, holly, and ebonized holly; thirteen soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; velvet (not original), French, Paris and Sèvres
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1770
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), Martin Carlin  French, Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; ten soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; velvet (not original), French, Paris and Sèvres
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1773
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), Adam Weisweiler  French, Oak veneered with burl thuya, amaranth, mahogany, satinwood, holly, and ebonized holly; painted metal; one soft-paste porcelain plaque; fifteen jasper medallions; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; leather (not original), French, Paris and Sèvres
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1787
Door panel from the "Cabinet Turc" of Comte d'Artois at Versailles, Jean -Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière, Oil on oak, French
Jean -Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière
Jules-Hugues Rousseau
1781
Mechanical table (Table mécanique), Jean Henri Riesener  French, Oak veneered with marquetry of bois satiné, holly, amaranth, barberry, stained sycamore, and green-lacquered wood; gilt-bronze mounts; steel, iron and brass fittings; mirror glass; velvet (not original), French, Paris
Jean Henri Riesener
Jean-Gotfritt Mercklein
1778
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine), Jacques Gondouin, Carved and gilded beech; modern silk lampas, French, Paris
Multiple artists/makers
1779
Mechanical table, Jean Henri Riesener  French, Oak veneered with mahogany and marquetry of bois satiné, sycamore, holly, ebonized holly fillets, and bayberry, the top with an amaranth border; gilt-bronze mounts; mirror glass; iron and brass fittings; green velvet (not original), French, Paris
Multiple artists/makers
1781
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), Jean Henri Riesener  French, Oak veneered with ebony and 17th-century Japanese lacquer; interiors veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top; velvet (not original), French, Paris
Jean Henri Riesener
1783
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant), Jean Henri Riesener  French, Oak veneered with ebony and 17th-century Japanese lacquer; interiors veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top; velvet (not original), French, Paris
Jean Henri Riesener
1783
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