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Alexandre Roux

Cabinet

Description

Maker

Alexandre Roux (French

Title

Cabinet

Year

ca. 1866

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ebonized trim, porcelain, tulipwood, gilding, maple veneer, rosewood, rosewood veneer, ormolu

Geography

Place Made: New York City; Place Made: New York

Dimensions

111.8 x 130.8 x 48.3 cm (44 x 51 1/2 x 19 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Label: Label on back, in various fonts of various sizes:FROM/ALEXANDER ROUX,/479 BROADWAY,/43 & 46 MERCER ST./NEW YORK,/ FRENCH CABINET MAKER,/AND IMPORTER OF /FANCY BUHL/AND/ MOSAIC FURNITURE,/Established 1836

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund

Object Number

78.052

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Making It In America
Oct 11, 2013 – Feb 09, 2014

Label copy

The prosperity of 19th-century Americans and the fondness they held for eclectic design are readily exemplified in the furniture of Alexander Roux, a French immigrant who established an upscale company in New York. Roux’s furniture designs included costly materials, as seen here in the elaborate gilt metal mounts, ebonized wood, marquetry, and Sèvres porcelain panel. Reflecting lavish European aesthetics and popular with leading architects and their clients, Roux’s work came to be directly associated with wealth and accomplishment, and was considered a status symbol.

Focus on Form
American Furniture from the Museum's Collection
Apr 01, 1998 – May 21, 2000
Dress, Art, and Society
1750-1890
Sep 13, 1996 – Jan 05, 1997
Romanticism and Revival
Nineteenth-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Dec 04, 1992 – Jun 26, 1993

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Tombstone

Alexandre Roux (French
American, fl. 1837-1881
1813-1886), cabinetmaker
Cabinet, ca. 1866
Rosewood, light and dark wood marquetry, ebonized and gilt trim, porcelain, and gilt bronze
111.8 x 130.8 x 48.3 cm (44 x 51 1/2 x 19 inches)
Jesse Metcalf Fund 78.052

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