Gallery 539 - Linsky Salon

Part of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gallery Highlights

  • Mechanical Table
    Mechanical Table

    Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763)

    Date: ca. 1761–63
    Accession Number: 1982.60.61

  • The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)
    The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)

    Luis Egidio Meléndez (or Menéndez) (Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid)

    Date: ca. 1772
    Accession Number: 1982.60.39

  • Clock, Cartel
    Clock, Cartel

    Clockmaker: Étienne I Le Noir (1675–1739)

    Date: ca. 1735–40
    Accession Number: 1982.60.84

  • Rug
    Rug

    Date: 17th century
    Accession Number: 1982.60.79

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French eighteenth-century furniture, paintings, clocks, and decorative objects are exhibited in a period setting in the Jack and Belle Linsky Galleries. Among the furniture is a commode with elaborate gilt-bronze mounts by Charles Cressent, and another, formerly at Versailles, by David Roentgen. Important also is Jean-François Oeben's mechanical table with its pieced legs made for Madame de Pompadour. Extremely rare is the Rococo cartel, or wall, clock with its Chantilly porcelain case of about 1735–40 and a harlequin family group made at the Villeroy porcelain manufactory. The gallery also includes a seventeenth-century Persian carpet known as a Polonaise rug and paintings by François Boucher and by Jean-Marc Nattier, and the Museum's only work by the still life painter Luis Egidio Melendez.

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