Cabinet
Also titled Kabinet
c. 1755 - c. 1765
- Medium
- mahogany (wood), walnut (hardwood), spruce (wood), wortelnotenhout, oak (wood)
- Classification
- case furniture
- Dimensions
- height 243.7 cm x width 198.5 cm x depth 70.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
All the elements of this cabinet are curved, as if the entire piece of furniture were moving. The carved ornament - a combination of plants and flowers and abstract forms - reinforces that impression. Only rarely in the Netherlands did such a large and massive piece of furniture manage to express the Rococo style so perfectly. Perhaps this cabinet was designed by a sculptor and not by a cabinetmaker.
