Etienne Forestier

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Etienne Forestier (* 1712 in Paris ; † March 19, 1768 ibid) was a French bronze caster . He became maître-fondeur en terre et sable in Paris in 1737 .

Forestier lived and worked on Rue de la Verrerie in the Marais , now the 4th arrondissement of Paris .

Appreciation

Etienne Forestier supplied the workshops of the ébéniste du roi Jean-François Oeben and André-Charles Boulle with bronzes and fittings . Forestier gained fame through the production of the bronzes at the Bureau du Roi based on the designs of the Italian silversmith Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis and through the longstanding collaboration with the ébéniste du roi Gilles Joubert , one of the leading suppliers of furniture to the court of Louis XV. After Forestier's death, the Marquis de Marigny authorized the widow to continue the company with her sons.

literature

  • Svend Eriksen: Early Neo-Classicism in France. The creation of the Louis Seize style in architectural decoration, furniture and ormolu, gold and silver, and Sèvres porcelain in the mid-eighteenth century . Edited by Peter Thornton. Faber and Faber, London 1974, ISBN 0-571-08717-5 ( Faber monographs on furniture ).
  • Denise Ledoux-Lebard: Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle. 1795-1889. Dictionnaire des Ébénistes et des Menuisiers . Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-85917-088-X .
  • Alexandre Pradère: French Furniture Makers. The Art of the Ébéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution . Sotheby's Publications, London 1989, ISBN 0-85667-368-4 .
  • AKL XLII, 2004, p. 308.
personal data
SURNAME Forestier, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bronze caster
DATE OF BIRTH 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1768
Place of death Paris , France