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Dressing table
Also titled Toilettafel
Carel Breytspraak (1808–1810)
c. 1808 - c. 1810
- Medium
- mahogany (wood), marble (rock), wood (plant material), brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification
- toilettafel
- Dimensions
- height 76.5 cm x width 103.6 cm x depth 54.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijke Verzamelingen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The king gave young Dutch cabinetmakers an opportunity to produce furniture for his palace. The required style was ‘Empire’, whose very name and references to Classical antiquity meant that even the furniture represented Napoleon’s imperial ambitions. The Amsterdam furniture-maker Carel Breytspraak made this dressing table for the bedchamber of Crown Prince Napoleon Louis.
