Card Table
Charles-Honore Lannuier

Details
Title
Card Table
Artist/Maker
Charles-Honore Lannuier
Date
ca. 1815
Medium
Mahogany, gilt gesso, and gilt bronze
Dimensions
30 x 36 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches
Credit
Purchase with funds from the Decorative Arts Acquisition Endowment
Accession #
1988.27
The robust winged figure and extended lion paws that animate this table exemplify the taste for French design that took hold in America after the Revolution. The attraction became particularly strong after 1803, when Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France. Craftsmen such as Charles-Honoré Lannuier, the French immigrant who made this card table in New York, adopted the motifs of French Neoclassicism, which took on a Greek and Egyptian flavor as a result of Napoleon’s military campaign in Egypt.
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