Jean Henri Riesener - Collections

Collections

As a result of the French Revolutionary Sales in the early-19th century, UK collectors had bought for the decoration of their stately homes and palaces significant numbers of French royal furniture (mobilier royale), which today forms the basis of the great collections that still remain in the UK. Towards the end of the industrial age until the agricultural depression of the 1920s, large numbers of works, predominately in UK collections were auctioned off and made their passage to American collectors. Still to this date UK collections are especially rich in the works of French furniture and decorative arts, particularly of Royal provenance, and the UK continues to enjoy perhaps the greatest repository of Riesener's works outside Paris.

Writing-table

• Bureau, 1780, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Bureau, 1783, Musée du Louvre, France
• Bureau, 1780-85, Musée du Louvre, France

Bureau à cylindre

• Bureau à cylindre (Bureau du roi), c. 1760-69, delivered to the 'Cabinet intérieur' for Louis XV at Versailles, Palace of Versailles, France
• Bureau à cylindre, c. 1774, delivered to the comte d'Orsay for the Hôtel d'Orsay, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Bureau à cylindre, c. 1775, Royal Collection, UK
• Bureau à cylindre, c. 1785, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Bureau à cylindre, c. 1773, delivered to Madame Adelaide, daughter of Louis XV, Versailles, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Bureau à cylindre, 1774, delivered to the comte de Provence, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Bureau à cylindre, 1774, Woburn Abbey, UK
• Bureau à cylindre, 1784, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's 'Cabinet intérieur' at the palais des Tuileries, Musée du Louvre, France
• Bureau à cylindre, c. 1775/1785, National Gallery of Art, USA

Cabinet

• Jewel-cabinet, delivered to the Comtesse de Provence, c. 1787, Royal Collection, UK

Commode

• Commode, c. 1774, delivered to Louis XVI's "Chambre du Roi" at Versailles, Royal Collection, UK
• Commode, c. 1780, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's cabinet intérieur de la reine at Versailles, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Commode, c. 1782, delivered to Marie-Antoinette for Chateau de Marly, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Commode, 1782, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's 'Cabinet' at the Chateau de Marly, Musée du Louvre, France
• Commode, 1776, delivered for the bedroom of the comtesse de Provence, sister-in-law of Louis XIV, Versailles, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Commode, 1778, delivered for the King's sister, Madame Elisabeth, Versailles, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Commode, c. 1775-80, V&A, UK
• Commode, Dalmeny House, UK

Encoignure

• Paire de encoignure, delivered to Louis XVI's "Chambre du Roi" at Versailles, c. 1774, Royal Collection, UK
• Encoignure, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's cabinet intérieur at Versailles, c. 1783, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Encoignure, supplied to Monsieur Fontanieu for his Hotel du Garde Meuble, Place Louis XV, 1773, V&A, UK

Jewel coffer et secrétaire

• Jewel coffer et secrétaire, 1775-80, V&A, UK

Marquetry Panel

• Panel, as part of a table-top delivered to Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles (Riesener's largest and finest marquetry marquetry execution), 1776, V&A, UK

Petit table

• Petit table, c. 1785, Royal Collection, UK
• Petit table, 1777, delivered to Marie-Antoinette for the use of Louis XVI at the Petit Triannon, Versailles, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Petit table, c. 1780, perhaps the table delivered for Marie-Antoinette at the Petit Triannon, Versailles, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Petit table, delivered to the 'cabinet intérieur' for Marie Antoinette at Versailles, Scone Palace, UK

Secrétaire

• Secrétaire, c. 1780-4, The Wallace Collection, UK

Secrétaire à abattant

• Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's cabinet intérieur at Versailles, c. 1780, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's cabinet intérieur at Versailles, c. 1783, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's Petit Triannon at Versailles, c. 1783, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Secrétaire à abattant, c. 1780-4, The Wallace Collection, UK
• Secrétaire à abattant, c. 1780s, Dalmeny House, UK
• Secrétaire à abattant, delivered to Louis XVI's "cabinet" at the Petit Trianon, 1777, Waddesdon Manor, UK
• Secrétaire à abattant, 1783, delivered (with a commode and encoignure) to the 'cabinet intérieur' for Marie Antoinette at Versailles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
• Secrétaire à abattant, c. 1775, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Switzerland
• Secrétaire à abattant, called the Guerault secrétaire, c. 1770-75, (sold in Paris, 21–22 March 1935)
• Secrétaire à abattant, called the Fontanieu secrétaire, c. 1771, (sold Christie's, 5th December, 1974)
• Secrétaire à abattant, called the Bergsten secrétaire, c. 1770-75, (sold Christie's, 23rd June, 1999)
• Secrétaire à abattant, called the Wernher secrétaire, c. 1763-68, (sold Christie's, 5th July, 2000)

Table à écrire

• Table à écrire, c. 1770s, delivered to Marie-Antoinette for the Petit Trianon, Palace of Versailles, France
• Table à écrire, c. 1780, National Gallery of Art, USA
• Table à écrire, c. 1784, delivered to Marie-Antoinette for the palais des Tuileries, National Gallery of Art, USA

Table de toilette

• Table de toilette, c. 1780-4, The Wallace Collection, UK

Toilet et bureau

• Toilet et bureau, c. 1780-4, The Wallace Collection, UK