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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 44

"Peregrinations of a Lit à la Duchesse en Impériale by Georges Jacob": The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O.
2009
24 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

The Swing, The Harvest, and Cherry Picking from a set of the Pastorals with Blue Draperies, Jean-Baptiste Huet I  French, Wool, silk (21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), French, Beauvais
Multiple artists/makers
designed ca. 1780, woven ca. 1782–90
Door from the Grand Salon in Hôtel de Belle Isle, Paris, Oak, painted white and gilded, French
French
ca. 1785
Commode, André Charles Boulle  French, Walnut veneered with ebony, marquetry of engraved brass and tortoiseshell, gilt-bronze mounts, verd antique marble, French
André Charles Boulle
ca. 1710–20
The Farnese Table, Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola  Italian, Marble of different colors, semiprecious stones, Egyptian alabaster, residue of paint of different colors on the piers, Italian, Rome
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1565–73
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
Oeuvres Diverses de Lalonde. Tome 2., Richard de Lalonde  French, Engraving, etching
Multiple artists/makers
late 18th century
Bed steps (Marchepied de lit), Jean Baptiste Boulard  French, Carved, painted and gilded beech and walnut; modern silk damask, French
Jean Baptiste Boulard
late 18th century