Furniture by one of the greatest cabinet-makers of the eighteenth century
Chest of drawers
1782Oak, mahogany, purplewood, ebony or ebonised wood, box, gilt bronze, brocatello marble | 88.5 x 136.3 x 60.2 cm | F248
The château de Marly was a palace north of Versailles where members of the royal family could retreat from the pressures of court life. Marie-Antoinette set about refurnishing her apartment there in 1780, and in 1782 Riesener delivered this chest of drawers to her cabinet bas. Originally, it was veneered with a trellis pattern containing sunflowers and fitted with a marquetry pastoral trophy, but it was reveneered in the early nineteenth century, probably to appeal to the taste for mahogany which was popular at that time.
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