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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 31 (1996)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 31

"'Cutting up Berchems, Watteaus, and Audrans': A Lacca Povera Secretary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O.
1996
17 pages
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Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide is responsible for French and Dutch decorative arts. She was the co-curator of an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center on the origins of French decorative arts at The Met. From 2017–2018, she co-organized the exhibition Visitors to Versailles, (1682–1789), held at the Château de Versailles and The Met. Currently, she is preparing a thematic exhibition about scent. She has lectured and written extensively on various aspects of European Decorative Arts, including new acquisitions such as a pair of candelabra for the surtout de table of the Duc d’Orléans. Her most recent book, How to Read European Decorative Arts, was published in 2023 and is accompanied by an installation in Gallery 521.

She is a graduate of the Free University in Amsterdam and Leiden University.

Selected publications

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle. “Buying from Britain: The Development of a new Market for Riesener,” in Helen Jacobsen et al., Jean Henri Riesener (London: The Wallace Collection, 2020), pp. 83-89.

———. “Cornelis Hop (1685-1762), Dutch Ambassador to the Court of Louis XV,” in Mark Ledbury and Robert Wellington, eds., The Versailles Effect; Objects, Lives, and After Lives of the Domaine (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 193-212.

MetPublications: Selected publications by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

Daniëlle Grosheide

Desk (Secretary), Pine; carved, painted, gilded, and varnished linden wood decorated with colored decoupage prints; mirror glass; the inside of the fall front lined with silk not original to the secretary, Italian, Venice
Italian, Venice
ca. 1730–35
Candlestand, Gessoed, painted, and partly gilded pine and walnut, Italian, Venice
Italian, Venice
ca. 1750
Box, Papier mâché, painted, lacquered and decorated with decoupage prints lined with colored paper, Italian, Venice
Italian, Venice
ca. 1755–60
L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Antoine Watteau  French, Engraving
Antoine Watteau
ca. 1740
Claude Audran III
[1726]
Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain, Jean Berain  French, Engraving
Multiple artists/makers
1711 or after
Sébastien Leclerc I
Nicodemus Tessin, the Younger
[1700]