Léonard Boudin, Marquetry Chest of Drawers Stamped Transition Period About 1770

Léonard Boudin, Marquetry Chest of Drawers Stamped Transition Period

Around 1770

Superb and Rare Jumbo Chest of Drawers with a Central Step, Opening by Two Drawers without Crosspiece in Front.

Inlaid decoration in Greek style, decorated with Antique Vases, Flowers, Characters and Angelots. It is an exceptional Marquetry of Léonard BOUDIN.

It is topped with a Breche d'Alep marble top (formerly restored) and rests on 4 cambered legs. Entrances of Locks and Shoes in Gilded Bronze.

Stamped LEONARD BOUDIN.

Léonard Boudin (1735-1804) - Cabinetmaker. Paris. Master on March 4, 1761. He had a cabinet making store and made shipments to the provinces and abroad.
Simple worker, Léonard Boudin was earning a poor living when the cabinetmaker Migeon asked him, for one of his clients, to make furniture in flowered marquetry and varnish in Chinese style. Having thus amassed a little money, he passed and obtained his master's degree in 1761 and set up his workshop on rue Traversiére. From 1870 onwards, he received orders from numerous renowned merchants, such as Louis Moreau and Gerard Peridiez, and quickly acquired a great reputation. He is especially known for his varied marquetry, worked with finesse and perfection. In 1772, while keeping his workshop, he opens a sales store in rue Fromenteau which he transfers in 1777, in the cloister Saint-germain-l'Auxerrois. Faced with the influx of orders, he was helped in turn by other cabinetmakers and became one of the main traders in Paris. Little by little, Boudin abandoned his own work and offered his clients only the works of his colleagues, hence the double stamp found on many pieces. Boudin left furniture in the style of Louis XV, Transition and Louis XVI always of excellent manufacture and which define by their veneers and their marquetries of the particular and characteristic signs "with the manner Boudin".furniture exposed to the Museum of the Louvres, Castle of Versailles... (furniture and cabinet makers of the eighteenth century).

Chest of drawers of very high quality, it can be installed directly at home, no restoration required.

Transitional Period work, circa 1770, XVIIIth Century.

Dimensions :

Height : 91.5 cm

Width : 97 cm

Depth : 51 cm

In beautiful state of preservation, to report, to undergo restorations, bottom of drawers, veneer, grafts).

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