Léonard BOUDIN: superb secretary stamped from the Transition period.

Rarely venturing outside my favorite period from the Directory to the end of the First Empire, I sometimes like to offer beautiful furniture from the very great master cabinetmakers of the 18th century.
Here is a very elegant secretary in rosewood and amaranth marquetry called "butterfly wings" from the Transition period, probably between 1765 and 1770, stamped by Léonard BOUDIN (1735 - 1804). Composed of an ogee drawer, two leaves and a notched flap opening onto six inlaid drawers and five compartments. The fine quality of the marquetry of this secretary as a whole is added to the finesse of the original ornamental bronzes. The latter, perfectly chiseled and in their very beautiful original gilding. Gray veined marble also original.

This perfectly restored secretary is in a very good state of conservation.

Léonard Boudin is all the more famous for his achievements and the quality of his work than for his completely atypical story. Indeed, poor and illiterate, Léonard Boudin was "discovered" by Migeon who ordered some inlaid furniture from him for his wealthy clientele. Revealing his talent in the eyes of the nobility, Léonard Boudin passed his Master's degree in 1761. As orders poured in, the latter, primed by a solid business sense, developed his activity by combining that of merchant-Mercier. It was important to him to express his success, in a way... a revenge on life.

Transition period, 18th century.

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