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The Bureau du Roi (French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], 'the King's desk'), also known as Louis XV's roll-top desk (French: Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV), is the richly ornamented royal cylinder desk which was constructed at the end of Louis XV's reign, and is now again in the Palace of Versailles.
Bureau du Roi, delivered to Louis XV. Portrait of Jean-Henri Riesener by his son, Henri-François Riesener, 1800 (Waddesdon Mano)). In this later portrait, Riesener is depicted with a degree of intimacy and informality, in contrast to his portrait by Vestier, which shows him as a man of court, dressed in elaborate clothes and seated at a table.
Oeben's distinguished marquetry appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished at his death; it was finished and delivered in 1769, signed by Jean Henri Riesener, but it was Oeben who devised its intricate mechanisms.
Jean-François Oeben is sometimes credited with designing the original rolltop desk around 1760, [1] however his Bureau du Roi (completed by Jean Henri Riesener after Oeben's death) was a cylinder desk.
The Bureau du Roi (French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], the King's desk), also known as Louis XV's roll-top secretary (French: Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV), is the richly ornamented royal cylinder desk which was constructed at the end of Louis XV's reign, and is now again in the Palace of Versailles.
The Bureau du Roi was the most famous amongst these famous masterpieces. Marquetry was not ordinarily a feature of furniture made outside large urban centers. Nevertheless, marquetry was introduced into London furniture at the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the product of immigrant Dutch 'inlayers', whose craft traditions owed a lot to ...
Français : Bureau du Roi ou secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV, cabinet intérieur du Roi - coté droit, détail du médaillon. Source: Own work: Author: TCY:
English: Marquetry of the Bureau du Roi (King's Desk) or Louis XV's roll-top secretary in the Palace of Versailles. brevi complector singula cantu - pastorum carmina ludo. From Cesare Ripa (1555-1622) in Iconologia, could be translated as "I embrace unique things in a short song" - "I play shepherds' songs".