point of success. Poitou rented four houses in the rue Joquelet on the corner of the rue Notre-Dame-des – Victoires. establishing his shop at the junction of the two streets. On 22 November of the same year Poitou was received master, but died at the end of 1718. The inventory drawn up after his death […]
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JOSEPH POITOU
Philippe Poitou was survived by three sons, all of them ebenistes: the eldest, another Philippe, lived in the enclave ofSaint-Jean-de-Latran. and the youngest. Jean, had settled in Orleans. The second son. Joseph Poitou, born between 1680 and 1685. started by working in his father’s workshop, and he is mentioned as being there at the time […]
POITOU
PHILIPPE, с. 1642-1709: МЛІ’ГКЕ MENUISIER EN EBENE BEFORE 1676JOSEPH, c. 1680-1718: MASTER 1717 T he earliest record concerning Philippe Poitou is his marriage contract with Constance Boulle. the sister of Andre-Charles Boulle. on 23 May 1672. There Poitou is described as ‘menuisier en ebene. residing in the rue du Mouton in the parish of Saint-Jean-de-Greve. […]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jean-Pierre Samoyault: Andre-Charles Boulle et sa famille. Geneva. 1979 Gillian Wilson: ‘Boulle’. Furniture History Society Bulletin, 1972 Jcan-Neree Ronfort: ‘Lc fondeur Jean-Pierre Mariette et la fin de I’atelier de Boulle’. L’Estampille. September 1984. no. 173; ‘Andre-Gharles Boulle. die Bronzearbeiten und seine Werkstatt im Louvre’. Vergoldete Bronzen. Munich. 1986. vol. и. pp. 459-520; ’La Declaration somptuaire […]
FLORAL MARQUETRY AND PLAIN VENEERS
How. therefore, should we visualize Boulle’s work prior to 17(H)? Various references in the records mentioned indicate that Boulle was making the wooden floral marquetry so much in favour in Paris in the 1680s. Thus in 1720 the fire destroyed ‘five boxes filled with different flowers, birds, animals, leaves and decorative elements in wood in […]
SUMMARY OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL. GUIDELINES TO BOULLE’S WORKS
1688. Purchase by the Prince de Cond£ of ‘two marquetry toilet coffers for the wedding of Mile dc Bourbon to the Prince de Conti, at the price of 1.260L’. Before 1689. (Coffer for the Grand Dauphin mentioned in his inventory of 1689; possibly supplied in 1684 (14]. 1700. ‘Declaration somptuaire’ of Boulle’s workshop. mentioning four […]
STYLE AND PROBLEMS OF CHRONOLOGY
A survey of Boulle’s output reveals not only its creative force but also its homogeneity. Its principal characteristic is the importance of sculptural elements: gilt-bronze mounts play a completely new role in the history of furniture. On earlier pieces by Gole. Cucci and Oppenordt. the mounts remain subordinate to the architectural elements of the cabinets, […]
BOULLES PRODUCTION: ASPECTS OF. ATTRIBUTION
Boulle’s workshop did not stamp its production. In the absence of a stamp the scholar must use archival sources to make attributions (such as the deed of giftand the inventory after Boulle’s death, royal archives, the inventories of his clients, and the collection of his models engraved by Mariette after 1707. Nouveaux Desseins de meubles […]
BOULLE’S ASSISTANTS AND THE EXTENSION. OF HIS WORKSHOP
The names of Boulle’s colleagues are known from the records of legal proceedings against him by his workforce. whom he paid very infrequently. Besides his four sons, he was assisted by one of his cousins. Pierre Boulle. who declared in 1710 that he had worked for him for thirty-five years and petitioned the Due d’An […]
BOULLE S COLLECTIONS AND DEBTS
Boulle was an inveterate collector. In his Abecedario Mariette writes of him: ‘No sale of drawings or prints look place which he did not attend, at which he did not make frequent purchases without having the means to pay; he was almost always forced to borrow at high rates of interest; another sale would take […]