"Nouveaux Deisseins de Meubles et Ouvrages" c.1720 Andre Charles Boulle (SOLD)
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Nouveaux Deisseins de Meubles et Ouvrages de Bronze et de Marqueterie Inventés et gravés par André Charles Boulle
Ex-Libris: (bookplate) Charles Edouard Architecte aka Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
w/ 8 engravings
16" x 11.75"
c.1720 (first published)
Lot 89 Sold at Sotheby's 11/20/2020
from The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
for 746,000 USD: (shown in our folio)
TWO LATE LOUIS XIV/ EARLY REGENCE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED EBONY, TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS MARQUETRY CONSOLE TABLES ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE OR HIS WORKSHOP
CIRCA 1720
André-Charles Boulle (11 November 1642 – 29 February 1732), le joailler du meuble (the "furniture jeweller"), became the most famous French cabinetmaker and the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry, also known as "inlay".
Boulle was "the most remarkable of all French cabinetmakers". Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) recommended him to Louis XIV of France, the "Sun King" (r. 1643–1715), as "the most skilled craftsman in his profession".
Over the centuries since his death, his name and that of his family has become associated with the art he perfected, the inlay of tortoiseshell, brass and pewter into ebony. It has become known as Boulle Work, and the École Boulle (founded in 1886), a college of fine arts and crafts and applied arts in Paris, continues today to bear testimony to his enduring art, the art of inlay.
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