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Antoine-Robert Gaudreau (c. 1680 — 1751) was a Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
ian ébéniste
Ébéniste

?b?niste is the French word for a cabinetmaker, as menuisier denotes a woodcarver or chairmaker. The English equivalent would be ebonists, never commonly used....
 who was appointed Ébéniste du Roi. He is largely known through the copious documentation of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, but since his career was spent before the practice of stamping Paris-made furniture began (1751), no stamped piece by Gaudreau exists and few identifications have been made, with the exception of royal pieces that were so ambitious and distinctive that they can be recognized from their meticulous inventory descriptions.

Gaudreau entered the service of the Garde-Meuble in 1726.






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Antoine-Robert Gaudreau (c. 1680 — 1751) was a Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
ian ébéniste
Ébéniste

?b?niste is the French word for a cabinetmaker, as menuisier denotes a woodcarver or chairmaker. The English equivalent would be ebonists, never commonly used....
 who was appointed Ébéniste du Roi. He is largely known through the copious documentation of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, but since his career was spent before the practice of stamping Paris-made furniture began (1751), no stamped piece by Gaudreau exists and few identifications have been made, with the exception of royal pieces that were so ambitious and distinctive that they can be recognized from their meticulous inventory descriptions.

Gaudreau entered the service of the Garde-Meuble in 1726. His premises were in rue Princesse, apart from the cabinet-making neighborhoods of Paris. He was elected syndic
Syndic

Syndic , a term applied in certain countries to an officer of government with varying powers, and secondly to a representative or delegate of a university, institution or other corporation, entrusted with special functions or powers....
 of the cabinet-makers' guild, the Corporation des Menuisiers-Ébénistes
Corporation des Menuisiers-Ébénistes

The Corporation des Menuisiers-?b?nistes was a France craft guild which was concerned with the profession of woodmaking....
 in 1744.

He was succeeded in his workshop, for a brief time, by his son François-Antoine Gaudreau, also Ébéniste du Roi.

His most famous pieces are:

  • The commode
    Commode

    A commode, commode with legs, or commode on legs is any of several pieces of furniture. The word commode comes from the French language word for "convenient" or "suitable"....
     he delivered for the King's Bedchamber at Versailles in 1739. It is now in the Wallace Collection
    Wallace Collection

    The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of Fine art and decorative arts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries....
    , London (Cat.no. F6).
  • The commode-médaillier, a medal cabinet in the form of a commode, delivered in 1739 for the king's use in Louis XV Cabinet à Pans at Versailles. It is in the Cabinet des Médailles
    Cabinet des Médailles

    The Cabinet des M?dailles, or Cabinet de France, more formally known as Le d?partement des Monnaies, M?dailles et Antiquit?s de la Biblioth?que Nationale, is a department of the Biblioth?que nationale de France in Paris, housed in its former premises in rue de Richelieu....
     at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
  • The low cupboard-bookcase delivered in 1744 for the king's Cabinet d'Angle at Versailles.
  • The commode à la Régence delivered for the Dauphine's apartment at the Château de Fontainebleau
    Château de Fontainebleau

    The Palace of Fontainebleau, located 34.5 miles from the centre of Paris, is one of the largest French royal ch?teaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on a structure of Francis I of France....
     in 1745. It is now at Versailles.
  • A bureau plat now in the Archives Nationales. (Verlet 1945).