About This Artwork

Artist unknown
Boston, Massachusetts

Secrétaire à abattant, 1820/25

Mahogany, mahogany veneer, pine, black marble, ormolu, and brass
145.4 x 133 48.4 cm (57 1/4 x 52 3/8 x 19 1/6 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Lena T. Gilbert Fund, 1983.30

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Baltimore, "Classical Taste in America," June 27-Sept. 26, 1993; traveled to Charlotte, Mint Museum, Nov. 20, 1993-Mar. 13, 1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 1-July 24, 1994.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 143-47, no. 61.

Ownership History

David Sears, Boston, to 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.