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	Jean Henri Riesener - Encyclopedia.com
		Jean Henri Riesener, 1734-1806, French cabinetmaker, one of the major artists who made important contributions to the formation of the Louis XVI style in France.
		Riesener's furniture pieces are distinguished for their architectural lines, finely executed adornments in chiseled bronze, and exquisite marquetries.
		Heinrich (Frenchified to ''Jean-Henri'') Riesener, to the pair of Louis...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Riesener.html (1039 words)

	Jean-Henri Riesener (Getty Museum)
		In 1769 Riesener began to supply the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne (the Furniture Warehouse of the Crown); five years later he received the official title of ébéniste du roi (Cabinetmaker to the King).
		Riesener was also known for his ingenious mechanical fittings, which allowed desk- and tabletops to be raised or lowered by a singled button.
		Riesener survived the French Revolution by removing royal emblems from furniture for the new régime.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=977 (217 words)

	JEAN HENRI RIESENER - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN HENRI RIESENER
		Riesener was unquestionably the greatest of the Louis Seize cabinet-makers.
		His name is stamped upon the Bureau du Roi in the Louvre, and although the original conception of that master-work was due to Oeben, it cannot be doubted that- its consummate finish and perfect achievement must in great measure be attributed to the man. who completed it.
		The extent of these royal orders may be gauged from the fact that between 1775 and 1785 Riesener received 5oo,ooo livres from the Garde Meubles, notwithstanding that during the whole of this period Gondouin the architect was the official designer of furniture for the royal palaces.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RIESENER_JEAN_HENRI.htm (668 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jean Henri Riesener (Interior Design And Home Furnishings, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jean Henri Riesener[zhAN ANrE´ rEzuner´] Pronunciation Key, 1734–1806, French cabinetmaker, one of the major artists who made important contributions to the formation of the Louis XVI style in France.
		Born in Germany, he early moved to Paris and joined the Arsenal workshop of J. Oeben, with whom he collaborated in the creation of Louis XV's writing desk, finished in 1769, one of the supremely fine achievements of 18th-century cabinetmaking.
		Riesener's furniture pieces are distinguished for their architectural lines, finely executed adornments in chiseled bronze, and exquisite marquetries.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Riesener.html (276 words)

	Paintings in Wood: French Marquetry by Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Riesener, probably after Boulle the most famous of cabinet-makers, was born near Cologne and moved to Paris around 1754, where he served his apprenticeship under Jean-François Oeben (1721-63).
		After Oeben's death, Riesener was chosen by Oeben's widow to direct the royal Arsenal workshop on her behalf and they married in 1767.
		Riesener was appointed official cabinet-maker to the King in 1774.
	www.wallacecollection.org /e_n/e/p_e/f_m/tenth.htm (358 words)

	Riesener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jean-Henri Riesener's marriage to the widow of his former master, Jean-François Oeben, helped this poor German immigrant become one of the most celebrated ébénistes of late eighteenth-century Paris.
		In 1769 Riesener began to supply the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne (the Furniture Warehouse of the Crown); five years later he received the official title of ébéniste du roi (Cabinetmaker to the King).
		Riesener was also known for his ingenious mechanical fittings, which allowed desk- and tabletops to be raised or lowered by a singled button.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/R/Riesener/Riesener.htm (182 words)

	Madame de Pompadour
		Riesener made this piece of furniture and it shows a rare bronze covering, with steel and mother-of-pearl.
		Riesener made this piece of furniture and it was placed in the bedroom of the Pope Pio VII when he stayed in Fontainebleau in 1801.
		Riesener created it for Madame Elisabeth, daughter of Louis XV, to be placed in Versailles.
	www.madamedepompadour.com /_eng_pomp/galleria/design/arredam/lugxvi/lugxvi.htm (935 words)

	RIESENER, JEAN HENRI (1734-1806) - Encyclopedia Britannica - RIESENER, JEAN HENRI (1734-1806) - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		RIESENER, JEAN HENRI (1734-1806), French cabinet-maker of the Louis XVI.
		The extent of these royal orders may be gauged from the fact that between 1775 and 1785 Riesener received 500,000 livres from the Garde Meubles, notwithstanding that during the whole of this period Gondouin the architect was the official designer of furniture for the royal palaces.
		Like so many other artists he was condemned in the end to sacrifice to the false: taste of his day, and - a certain number of his creations, otherwise delightful, were vitiated by being mounted with panels of Sevres, Wedgwood and other china.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/RHY_RON/RIESENER_JEAN_HENRI_1734_1806_.html (791 words)

	Jean-henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Riesener was noted for his lavishly decorated pieces that contained innovative mechanical fittings.
		Riesener spent the French Revolution avoiding death by removing the royal emblems from his furniture.
		Jean Dubuffet - Portrait of Henri Michaux 1947 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
	wwar.com /masters/r/riesener-jean-henri.html (404 words)

	NGA - Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
		Jean-Henri Riesener, Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre), c.
		Jean-Henri Riesener, Writing Table (table à écrire), 1784
		Jean-Henri Riesener, Writing Table (table à écrire), c.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg14a/gg14a-main1.html (177 words)

	Apollo: Fit for a queen: a secretaire made by Jean-Henri Riesener for Marie-Antoinette's private apartments at ...
		Oeben was renowned for his skill at producing furniture decorated with floral marquetry as well as for inventing mechanical devices that enabled furniture to he opened and closed in an ingenious manner.
		By February 1783 she had replaced the secretaire with another by Riesener, also now in the Wallace Collection, this time executed in a more restrained neo-classical style, with the natural speckled pattern of the thuya-wood veneer replacing the floral marquetry of the earlier secretaire (Fig.
		Intriguingly, a constructional feature of the desk, typical of the desks produced in Riesener's workshop, (10) prevented damage to the beautiful marquetry panels during the Revolution.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_512_160/ai_n9770065 (1487 words)

	19th c. Louis XVI-style Carved Fruitwood Window Seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Whereas the general style of furniture was again Neoclassic (i.e., straight, simple lines and classical motifs), the workmanship was as complicated and as finely performed as in any period to date.
		Jean-Henri Riesener and Bernard van Risenburgh were two of the foremost cabinetmakers, filling commissions for Mme du Barry as well as for the Queen.
		Many of the ébénistes, including Riesener, were German craftsmen who, nevertheless, contributed to the tradition of French furniture.
	www.lifestyleantiques.com /items/356560/item356560lifestyleantiques.html (360 words)

	Jean Henri Riesener -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jean Henri Riesener -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He was responsible for some of the most important examples of (Furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy) furniture in the (King of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793)) Louis XVI style.
		In short, all of his creations would appear to be overloaded with excessive decorations, when seen through 21st century eyes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jean_henri_riesener.htm (118 words)

	news11_o
		A Louis 16th fl lacquered and bronze gilded commode by Jean-Henri Riesener will notably be sold with a sure provenance as Queen Hortense, wife of Prince Louis-Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, bought it in 1804 but this piece of furniture might have belonged in fact to Queen Marie-Antoinette.
		Riesener produced few richly decorated lacquered pieces, which were typical of the taste of Queen Marie-Antoinette and those from the Ojjeh collection might well have been ordered for her apartments in the Tuileries or Versailles palaces, a spokesman for Christie’s said.
		Bronze plaques from the pieces of the Ojjeh collection were replaced as holes for other fittings were found under these while Riesener published an advertisement in October 1797 regarding the sale of several lacquered pieces of furniture which were previously destined to Versailles.
	www.artcult.com /news11_o.htm (434 words)

	RIESENER, JEAN HENRI (1734-1806) - Online Information article about RIESENER, JEAN HENRI (1734-1806) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When Riesener contracted his first marriage he possessed little or nothing; his second See also:
		Jacobins, leaving an only son, Henri Francois (1767-1828), a distinguished portrait-painter of the First See also:
		The extent of these royal orders may be gauged from the fact that between 1775 and 1785 Riesener received 500,000 livres from the Garde Meubles, notwithstanding that during the whole of this period Gondouin the architect was the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /RHY_RON/RIESENER_JEAN_HENRI_1734_1806_.html (1017 words)

	Hamilton Palace : treasures of the palace
		This fl lacquer secretaire and matching commode by Jean-Henri Riesener (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) were the pre-eminent or 'number one' items in the Hamilton Collection and fetched the highest prices (£9,450 each) at the 1882 sale.
		Both pieces were made for Queen Marie-Antoinette of France in 1783 and reflect her taste for Japanese lacquer.
		Riesener has cleverly and effectively combined cut-down panels of old Japanese lacquer, from at least three different objects, with extremely rich gilt bronze mounts, incorporating Marie-Antoinette's initials in the friezes.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /vhp/treasures35.html (206 words)

	The Three Cornered Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This writing desk was made by Jean-Henri Riesener, the best and most expensive of all French furniture-makers, for Marie-Antoinette, less than ten years before she was guillotined.
		The drop-down front of the desk is decorated with marquetry, a method of laying shaped pieces of wood into a panel from which the shapes have been cut.
		Following the French revolution, Riesener was employed to remove royal emblems from furniture.
	www.3corneredgallery.com /details_on_article_number/f300.html (151 words)

	Hamilton Palace : treasures of the palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Riesener had been appointed ébéniste du Roi in 1774 and, over the following decade, supplied furniture worth 938,000 livres to the French royal palaces.
		This commode or chest of drawers was made for the bedchamber at Versailles of the Comtesse de Provence, the wife of Louis XVI's eldest brother and the future Louis XVIII.
		Although the price was reduced from 8,250 to 7,750 livres, it was still the most expensive commode supplied by Riesener that year.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk /hamilton/treasures31.html (221 words)

	Jean-Henri Riesener: Secretary (secretaire a abattant) (20.155.11) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Oak veneered with ebony and fl and gold Japanese lacquer, tulipwood, holly and fl stained holly, amaranth, gilt-bronze mounts, white marble; H. 57 x W. 43 x D. 16 in.
		Ordered from Riesener together with a matching commode and encoignure (corner cabinet) for use in Queen Marie Antoinette's cabinet intérieur at Versailles in 1783, the secretary and the commode were sent several years later to the Château of Saint Cloud.
		With their Japanese fl and gold lacquer panels and exquisite gilt-bronze mounts, the secretary and the commode, now also in the Museum's collection, are among the best known pieces of royal furniture outside France.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/ffurn/hod_20.155.11.htm (131 words)

	Hamilton Palace : treasures of the palace
		Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, acquired the marquetry secretaire and commode that Jean-Henri Riesener had made for Queen Marie-Antoinette in the 1780s, and remodelled for her in 1790-1.
		The duke knew or believed that they had been owned by Marie-Antoinette and he either gave them to his wife or installed them in her apartment as suitably grand pieces for the consort of the premier peer of Scotland.
		They were purchased by Henry Clay Frick in 1915 and are among the first things one sees when walking round the Frick Collection in New York.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /vhp/treasures34.html (250 words)

	Aperçu des chefs-d'oeuvre
		This "secretary" was specially built for Louis XV, who wanted a desk where he could keep his papers away from prying eyes, thus inaugurating the "roll-top" model.
		It took a long time to complete, having been begun by German cabinet-maker Jean-François Œben in 1769 but only finished in 1769 by his disciple, Jean-Henri Riesener (who would become Marie-Antoinette's favourite cabinet-maker).
		Costing 65,000 livres, this desk was the most expensive piece of furniture built for Louis XV.
	www.chateauversailles.fr /en/un_chef_d_oeuvre_38.php?PHPSESSID=26e5da45d12c307b496621dc4bc51914 (126 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Riesener, Jean-Henri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After Oeben’s death (1763) until 1768, Riesener directed his workshop at the Arsenal, Paris, where he remained until 1800, under the nominal authority of Oeben’s widow whom he married in August 1767.
		Through his wife Riesener became related to the cabinetmakers Simon Oeben (d 1786), Roger Vandercruse and Martin Carlin, and to the bronze-caster Antoine-André Ravrio.
		He was the father of the painter Henri-François Riesener (1767–1828) and grandfather of the painters Léon Riesener (1808–78) and Eugène Delacroix.
	www.artnet.com /library/07/0721/T072101.asp (249 words)

	Madame de Pompadour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Despite begun by Jean François Oeben who worked at it for three years, this famous desk was finished and delivered by Riesener in 1769.
		Jean Henry Riesener worked in the shop of Jean François Oeben and, when he died, was in charged of the atelier and even married the widow, Françoise Marguerite Oeben.
		The marvellous works of Riesener are in the section:
	www.madamedepompadour.com /_eng_pomp/galleria/design/arredam/ebanisti/riesen.htm (91 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Vandercruse, Roger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He was related to the cabinetmakers Jean-Henri Riesener, Martin Carlin, Etienne Levasseur, Pioniez, Nicolas-Jean Marchand and the brothers Jean-François Oeben and Simon Oeben (d 1786).
		He was very successful and worked for Louis-Philippe, 4th Duc d’Orléans, the Comtesse Du Barry and the Garde Meuble de la Couronne through Gilles Joubert and Riesener.
		He moved with ease from the Louis XV to the Neo-classical style and mastered all types of marquetry: geometric, floral (e.g.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0878/T087819.asp (235 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Further highlights of the silver collection included a German silver gilt cup and cover formed as a model of a bear, which more than tripled pre-sale expectations to realize $288, 223.
		Eighteenth Century French furniture in the sale included a Louis XV ormolu-mounted marquetry secretaire en armoire by Jean-Henri Riesener that sold for $1,833,976.
		The Wernher collection was housed for nearly a century at Beth House, Piccadilly and at Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /AW0-07-11-2000-11-56-19 (688 words)

	Abstracts: 2004 WAG session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		An Approach to Compensating for the Structural Failure of a Jean-Henri Riesener Bureau Plat
		This parameter was essential to define in order to make the results of this study useable.
		This paper will discuss the treatment of a bureau plat, circa 1785, attributed to ebeniste Jean-Henri Riesener, presently in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
	www.wag-aic.org /abstracts04.html (3089 words)

	Jean-François Oeben (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Furthermore, after ten years, a foreigner such as Oeben became a naturalized Frenchman and had the right to will his assets to his children.
		The ébénistes Jean-Henri Riesener and Jean-François Leleu worked as assistants in his workshops, and Riesener eventually took over the shop in 1768, when he married Oeben's widow.
		In 1756 the King gave Oeben extensive accommodations and a workshop at the Arsenal, with permission to build a forge to cast his own metal fittings.
	getty.museum /art/collections/bio/a975-1.html (232 words)

	Hamilton Palace : treasures of the palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jean-Henri Riesener made this magnificent commode and its matching secretaire for Queen Marie-Antoinette in 1783.
		After the Revolution, both pieces passed into the important collection of George Watson Taylor (1770-1841), which was built up in less than a decade using a sugar fortune inherited by Watson Taylor's wife in 1815.
		Understandably, the Met has made no attempt to recreate the gilt bronze balustrade or rail that decorated the very top of the secretaire.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk /hamilton/treasures36.html (241 words)

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