Jean Demoulin Walnut Desk With Marquetry Of A Castle And Mill, Louis XVI Period

Attributed to Demoulin Walnut Desk decorated with castle and mill in marquetry Louis XVI period

An elegant walnut desk with boxwood, amaranth, plum, and colored sycamore veneers. Our secretary features a beautiful marquetry décor: a landscape of castles and a mill, a pond with ducks in a medallion framed by fillets and small checkerboards. In the lower part, marquetry of bouquets such as tulips, daisies, and roses in framed fillets and small checkerboards. Finally, the entire piece is inlaid with decorative grooves and lines.

Blackened walnut top, the upper part opening with four drawers in two rows, the central part with a flap covered in black leather with gilded roller decoration revealing a theater with shelves and a series of six small drawers, the lower part opening with two leaves.

Beautiful French work from the Louis XVI period, attributed to the cabinetmaker Demoulin in Dijon around 1785.

Sizes: Height 43.70 Inches. - Width 26.37 Inches. - Depth 13.38 Inches.

Our desk is in fine condition. Restoration and varnishing in our workshop. Leather changed.

Biography:

Jean DEMOULIN: August 13, 1715 - July 2, 1798.

Cabinetmaker to the Prince de Condé, Jean Demoulin was born in Selongey, Côte d'Or, and appears to have apprenticed in Dijon before moving to Paris circa 1749, where he obtained his master's degree.

A few years later, however, he returned to Dijon, where he set up his workshop.
On September 22, 1781, he and his sons Jean-Baptiste and Bertrand were awarded the patent of cabinetmakers by the Prince de Condé, Governor of Burgundy.
He practiced until 1788.

Noteworthy in his production is an exceptional Louis XV commode with two drawers decorated with Coromandel lacquer; or a large and remarkable Louis XV commode in lacquer with polychrome decoration in the Chinese style from the Château de Chanteloup (now in the Tours museum).