GILBERT
1746-1809
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ndre-Louis Gilbert became a master in 1774 after an apprenticeship under L.-N. Malle, one of the principal marquetry-makers in Paris. He then settled first in the rue Traversiere. then in 1785 in the Grand-Rue du Faubourg Saint – Antoine and was active until 1789. Like his former master he specialized in marquetry pieces and particularly in architectural scenes in the manner of Hubert Robert.
His furniture is generally simple in form, decorated on the front with rectangular panels of minutely detailed marquetry scenes of townscapes with numerous buildings, the windows highlighted with mother – of-pearl. The compositions are often centred on a portico. an arcade or a temple. These marquetry pictures are seldom of the same size as the panels making up
the piece, and th...