The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 31, 2023

Armchair

c.1740

manufacturer

René Cresson

(French, c. 1705–c. 1749)

France, 18th century

Carved wood, cane

Overall: 95.6 x 70.5 x 60 cm (37 5/8 x 27 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1928.212

Location

216B French and German

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed underneath on strip across back: "CRESSON LAINE" (the trademark for René Cresson).

Provenance
(Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).
Exhibition history

Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.212