The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 6, 2023

Model for the Lower Part of a Gilt Bronze Furniture Mount

c. 1867

firm of Louis Auguste Alfred Beurdeley

(French, 1808–1882)

France, 19th century

Red wax relief on wood panel painted blue green

Overall: 32.4 x 39.4 cm (12 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)

Gift of Leopold and Ruth Blumka 1964.414

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Inscribed on rear in pencil: "---tion Beurdeley"; and in red paint: "42(.?) 207.327."

Louis Auguste Alfred Beurdeley

Son of a Parisian furniture-maker whose business he greatly extended during the Second Empire. He specialized in 18th Century style and Renaissance Revival furniture and bronzes (e.g. mounts for vases) which he sometimes interpreted in a personal manner.
Provenance
Leopold and Ruth Blumka
Exhibition history

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 1-31, 1965).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1964.414