id: 155937 accession number: 1991.226 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.226 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:11.587000 Table, c. 1885. Firm of Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926). Wood decorated with lacquer, inlays of mother-of-pearl and bronze; overall: 80.6 x 80.3 x 54.8 cm (31 3/4 x 31 5/8 x 21 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1991.226 title: Table title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1885 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1890 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Nancy, 19th century technique: wood decorated with lacquer, inlays of mother-of-pearl and bronze department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Furniture type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926) - artist 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. --- measurements: Overall: 80.6 x 80.3 x 54.8 cm (31 3/4 x 31 5/8 x 21 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Mrs. Charles M. Freeman, Rowayton, Connecticut). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "Selected 1991 Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83. page number: Reproduced: p. 71; Mentioned: p. 78 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.226/1991.226_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.226/1991.226_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.226/1991.226_full.tif