Card table
Maker
Charles Honoré Lannuier
(French, 1779 - 1819)
Collections
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Date1815-1819
Mediummahogany and rosewood veneer with brass inlay and gilding
Dimensions30 x 35 3/4 x 17 5/8 in. (76.2 x 90.8 x 44.8 cm.)
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextBorn and trained in France, Charles Honoré Lannuier moved to this country in 1803. He opened a shop in New York in which he introduced furniture in the latest French styles to an increasingly affluent American clientele. With its winged caryatid figure and its gilt paw feet with acanthus-covered columns, this Neoclassical card table embodies the cosmopolitan spirit and taste for luxury prevalent in urban America in the first quarter of the 19th century.Status
On viewObject number14.21
Exhibitions
Charles Sumner Greene
1905-1906
Object number: 000.120
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
ca. 1785
Object number: 78.20.5