id:			148803
accession number:	1976.53
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.53
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:39.974000

Cabinet, c. 1910. Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926). Wood marquetry with metal mounts; overall: 130.8 x 162.5 x 58.4 cm (51 1/2 x 64 x 23 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1976.53

title:				Cabinet
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creation date:			c. 1910
creation date earliest:		1905
creation date latest:		1915
current location:		221 19th Century Decorative Arts
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	France, early 20th Century
technique:	wood marquetry with metal mounts
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Furniture
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS

* Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926)  - made by
Louis Majorelle, the son of a cabinet-maker, Auguste Majorelle, who worked in Nancy and specialized in reproduction 18th C. furniture. He was trained as a painter (under Millet in Paris) but gave up on painting and returned to Nancy to run the family workshops when his father died in 1879. Until 1890 he continued to work, like his father, in 18th C. styles for furniture. In the 1880s Gallé's first Art Nouveau pieces of furniture were made (in Nancy), and by 1900 Majorelle had so successfully turned over to the new style that he had become the main producer of Art Nouveau furniture and perhaps Europe. He mechanized his workshops, which were said to have been 'organized in the manner of a big industrial concern': and although his factory produced nothing that could not have been made as well, if not better, by the techniques of hand-craftsmanship, it was able to produce luxury furniture at a price within the range of the middle class.
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measurements: Overall: 130.8 x 162.5 x 58.4 cm (51 1/2 x 64 x 23 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Macklowe Gallery, New York).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 226
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n246

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