Guillaume Beneman
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Guillaume Beneman or Benneman was a prominent Parisian ébéniste, one of several of German extraction, working in the early neoclassical Louis XVI style, which was already fully developed when he arriv
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Bureau du Roi
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The Bureau du Roi, also known as Louis XV's roll-top desk, is the richly ornamented royal cylinder desk which was constructed at the end of Louis XV's reign, and is now again in the Palace of Versaill
Guillaume Beneman
…direction of the sculptor Jean Hauré, fournisseur de la Cour, meticulously follows the design and decor of the lower section of the Oeben/Riesener Bureau du Roi, or the secretaire in the Wrightsman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, delivered in 1786 by Beneman for Compiègne, where the style was "dictated…
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