Collection Online as of September 27, 2023

Chest of Drawers (Commode)

c. 1775–1792

attributed to Claude-Charles Saunier

(French, 1735–1807)

mounts in the style of Pierre Joseph Désiré Gouthière

(French, 1732–1813/14)

France, style of Louis XVI, 18th Century

Oak, coralwood, mahogany veneer, marble top, gilt bronze mounts

Overall: 90.8 x 131.5 x 59.7 cm (35 3/4 x 51 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)

Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.599

Location

202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts

Provenance

John L. Severance.

Citations

John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Mentioned: p. 237; Reproduced: p. 239 archive.org

Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Mentioned: p. 45, cat. no. 86; Reproduced: p. [51], Plate XXIII, cat. no. 86 archive.org

Exhibition history

Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).