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Gervais Maximillien Eugène Durand
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Floral Marquetry Bureau Plat
£38,000
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Floral Marquetry Bureau Plat, By Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand. The top of this fine bureau plat has a central...
Dimensions
Height: 78 cm (31 in)Width: 175 cm (69 in)
Depth: 90 cm (36 in)
ImprimerDescription
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Floral Marquetry Bureau Plat, By Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand.
The top of this fine bureau plat has a central leather writing surface flanked by veneered panels. The front is fitted with three drawers and the back with false drawers. The frieze is beautifully veneered with bois de bout marquetry floral spays. The sides are mounted with a rocaille oak and rose branch volute shaped mount. The cabriole legs are headed by pierced rocaille clasps.
Stamped ‘G. Durand’.
France, vers 1870.
This bureau plat exhibits the finest craftsmanship exemplary of the noteworthy output of the Durand dynasty. It recalls the style of Bernard II van Risenburgh, a leading cabinetmaker to Louis XV, in the beautiful balance between the gilt-bronze mounts and marquetry decoration.
This bureau plat is in good original unrestored condition.
Date
Circa 1870
Origine
France
Moyen
Gilt-Bronze and Marquetry
Signature
Stamped 'G. Durand'.
The Durands were a well known Parisian family of fine furniture makers. The Maison Durand was founded by Maximilien-Eugène Durand (b.1839) who worked at 12 rue de la Carisaie and later at 62 rue Saint-Antoine, and was to execute many state and royal commissions.
Durand was one of the finest craftsmen at the end of the Nineteenth Century in Paris.
The company participated in the 1851 Great Exhibition and the 1899 Exposition Universelle where they were awarded a silver medal.
The Catalogue of the 1851 Great Exhibition makes particular reference to a sideboard displayed by Durand, which it states, ‘in design and execution, may compete with the best that the Exhibition has called forth’, and to an even greater extent a tea and coffee service produced by Durand. It states that, ‘It will be thought by all those who are fortunate enough to get a sight of the most exquisite tea and coffee service, manufactured by M. Durand of Paris, that any work of similar character bought into competition with it will be put to a severe test, so pure is the taste that has designed, and so skilful are the hands that have been engaged in working it out.’
Maximilien-Eugène was joined by his son Frederic Louis Durand around 1890 and thereafter the firm was known as Durand et Fils.
