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David Roentgen

Herrnhaag 1743 – 1807 Wiesbaden

Table with the profile portrait of Friedrich II., Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel (1720–1785). 1770/75

Maple, boxwood, elm and various precious woods veneered onto oak; marquetry partially from coloured maple; bronze fittings, chased, gilt. 72,5 × 57 × 47 cm (28 ½ × 22 ½ × 18 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: David Roentgen. Table with the profile portrait of Friedrich II., Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel (1720–1785). 1770/75.

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

 

- 70,000

USD 53,400

 

- 74,700

Sold for:

81,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

Information

Maple, boxwood, elm and various precious woods veneered onto oak; marquetry partially from coloured maple; bronze fittings, chased, gilt. 72,5 × 57 × 47 cm (28 ½ × 22 ½ × 18 ½ in.). On the underside two labels, inscribed in ink: Coll. J... / Salon... / . Inscribed with grease pencil: Roux. Repairs to the table top dating from around 1900, parquet veneer in places very thin. In the drawer the so-called "Kleisterpapier", presumably prepared by the Herrnhutern in Neuwied. With key.

Comparable illustration: J. H. Tischbein d.Ä.: Friedrich II., Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel, DHM Berlin

Related literature: Wolfram Koeppe: Extravagant Inventions. The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens. exh. cat., New York 2012 / Christian Baulez: David Roentgen et François Rémond, Une collaboration majeure dans l’histoire du mobilier européen. In: L’Estampille-L’Objet d’Art, 1996, no. 305, p. 96–119.

Until 1912 collection of the fashion designer Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), Paris / before 1936 collection Paul Roux, Paris (although not in the auction of 14 December 1936) / 1991 Kunsthandel Otto von Mitzlaff, Wächtersbach / Private collection, Munich

Auction: Collection Jacques Doucet. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 7.–8 January 1912, cat. no. 324 (FF 23,000) / Seymour de Ricci: Louis XVI. Furniture. Stuttgart, 1913, p. 92 / Adolf Feulner: Kunstgeschichte des Möbels. Berlin, 1927, p. 721 / Hans Huth: Abraham und David Roentgen und ihre Neuwieder Möbelwerkstatt. Berlin, 1928, ill. p. 83 / Josef Maria Greber: Abraham und David Roentgen. Möbel für Europa. Starnberg, 1980, vol. 1, p. 230, part 2, ill. 605, 606 / Auction: New York, Christie's, 25 October 1991, cat. no. 204, p. 126f. / Weltkunst, vol. 63 (1993), p. 2540 / Dietrich Fabian: Abraham und David Roentgen. Bad Neustadt an der Saale, 1996, p. 244, ill. 555, p. 52–54, 91f

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