François-Gaspard Teuné

Marquetry commode, mid-1770s, stamped F G Teuné (Walters Art Museum)

François-Gaspard Teuné (1726 - after c 1788) was a Parisian ébéniste who was made master 19 March 1766.[1] His stamped works are in the Neoclassical style, sometimes, as in the marquetry commode at the Walters Art Museum (illustration) reflecting vestiges of the Rococo in stiffened cabriole legs and the softened transitions between planes. He was one of a number of Parisian furniture makers of German families. He had premises in rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine and then in rue de Charonne. He disappears from the documents at the start of the Revolution.[2]

A cylinder desk bearing in the marquetry the arms of the comte d'Artois, and made in 1781–82,[3] is in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.[4]

A chaise en gondole from Fontainebleau, one of a suite delivered in 1811, bears an inked label "Teuné", doubtless a member of his family.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Henri Vial, Adrien Marcel, André Girodie, Les artistes décorateurs du bois, vol. 2 1922:164.
  2. ^ Vial et al 1922.
  3. ^ Francis J. B. Watson notes that the arms are encircled by the Order of the Golden Fleece, granted to the king's brother in 1781, but omits the Order of Saint Louis which he received in 1782 (Watson, Louis XVI Furniture 1960:7, illus. fig. 69).
  4. ^ Noted by comte François de Salverte Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle: leurs œuvres et leurs marques, (reprinted 1962) s.v. "Teuné,François-Gaspard"
  5. ^ Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes parisiens du xix siècle (1795-1870), 1965 , s.v. "Teuné".
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