Artist: Jean-henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
Nationality: German-French
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Media: Ebeniste
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Biography:
German immigrant, Jean-Henri Riesener studied under Jean-Francois Oeben, marrying his widow in order to help his career as an ebeniste. In 1769, he began supplying the Furniture Warehouse of the Crow and became to official Cabinetmaker to the King five years later. Riesener was noted for his lavishly decorated pieces that contained innovative mechanical fittings. He earned a fortune from commissions from Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and other French noble families. Riesener spent the French Revolution avoiding death by removing the royal emblems from his furniture. Believing that the monarchy would be reinstated, he spent his savings buying back his pieces. As this never happened, Riesener died in obscurity.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786-1847), 1835 Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)Oil on canvas; 29
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Desk (Sécretaire), 18th century (1784) Maker: Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)French (Paris); Made in Paris,
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Louis-Antoine-Leon Riesener, Landscape, 19th century
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Jean Henri Eberts, Jeanette, 18th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Baigneuses, 1898
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Asters, 1892
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Jean Henri Marlet, Leon XII, 18th - 19th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Self-Portrait, 1892
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Secrétaire
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Flowers in a Vase, 1882
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Baigneuse Debout, 1899
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Henri Grenaud, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, 19th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Les Brodeuses (The Embroiderers), circa 1895
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Jean Henri Cless, Louis Antoine Bougainville, 19th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Evocation d"Erda, 1885
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, VÈritÈ (small plate), 1900
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, White and Purple Stock, 1877
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Sara la Beigneuse, 1879
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Achille-Jacques-Jean-Marie DevÈria, Henri II (1520), 19th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, White Rockets and Fruit, 1869
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Lohengrin, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Lohengrin, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Baigneuses, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Spray of Purple Lilac, 1880
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Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays (Deshays de Colleville), The Abduction of Helen, circa 1761
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Jean Dubuffet - Portrait of Henri Michaux 1947 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, L"Enfance du Christ..., 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, La Damnation de Faust, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Studies of Nudes, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Manfred et Astarte (Rob. Schumann, Manfred, no. 11), 1879
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Dans l"atelier, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Apotheosis of Berlioz, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Italie (Berliez, Les Treyeus, act II, scene III), 1884
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Symphonie Fantastique - Un Bal, 19th - 20th century
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Achille-Jacques-Jean-Marie DevÈria, Catherine de Medicis, wife of Henri II, 19th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Un morceau de Schumann (at Edwin Edwards), 1864
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Jean Baptiste Simonet, Cependant les soldats, dans les murs de Paris . . . from Henri, Ch. X, 18th - 19th century
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Achille-Jacques-Jean-Marie DevÈria, French Woman of the time of Henri III, 19th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Lelie - La harpe coelienne, 19th - 20th century
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Evocation d"Erda (Wagner, Siegfried, ActIII), 1876

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