Jean Henri Riesener
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Jean-Henri Riesener was an eminent German ébéniste, working in Paris. His work exemplified the early neoclassical "Louis XVI style".
Portrait of Jean-Henri Riesener, seated at one of his writing tables, by Antoine Vestier, 1786 (Musée de Versailles).
Writing table made for Marie Antoinette, 1780–85 at Waddesdon Manor.
Bureau du Roi, delivered to Louis XV.
Portrait of Jean-Henri Riesener by his son, Henri-François Riesener, 1800 (Waddesdon Manor)). In this later portrait, Riesener is depicted with a degree of intimacy and informality, in contrast to his portrait by Vestier, which shows him as a man of court, dressed in elaborate clothes and seated at a table.
Jean-François Oeben
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Jean-François Oeben, or Johann Franz Oeben was a German ébéniste whose career was spent in Paris. He was the maternal grandfather of the painter Eugène Delacroix.
Jean Henri Riesener
…Louis XVI style". Riesener was born in Gladbeck, Electorate of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire. He moved to Paris, where he apprenticed soon after 1754 with Jean-François Oeben, whose widow he later married; he was received master ébéniste in January 1768. The following year, he began supplying furniture for the Crown and in…
Secrétaire à cylindre by Jean-François Oeben
The Bureau du Roi, from 1760; completed by Jean-Henri Riesener
Félix Nadar 1820 1910 portraits Eugène Delacroix