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Artist:
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Previously attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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Title:
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Console table
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Date:
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c. 1775-1800
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Medium:
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Gilded wood and marble
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Dimensions:
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36 1/8 x 47 x 25 3/4 in. (91.76 x 119.38 x 65.41 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 310
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This table was once thought to have been designed by the French rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) for his villa in Grasse, in southern France.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1732-1806
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Furniture
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Physical Description:
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Carved wood and gilded console top is of breche d'Aleppe marble; frame and stretchers covered with a profusion of ornament; legs in front are double - all entwined with laurel. The stretcher supports a large classical vase with a Greek border surmounted with an acorn finial and draped with floral garlands and laurel sprays. On every part of the table are eloborate floral swags. Louix XVI period.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Italy (?), , ,
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Accession #:
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27.32
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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