Antoine Gaudreau

The commode in question, formerly in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild, was delivered by Gaudreau on 4 August 1738 intended for the King's bedroom at Château La Muette.

[2] The gilt-bronze mounts, by which André Bouthemy attributed the commode to Charles Cressent,[3] who may have been responsible for modelling them.

Several commodes following this model exist, including one in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

One of the group bears on its gilt-bronze mounts the crowned C tax stamp that was used in 1745-49,[4] suggesting that the model remained current for several years.

He was succeeded in his workshop, for a brief time, by his son François-Antoine Gaudreau (died 1751), also Ébéniste du Roi.

Commode (1745), delivered for Fontainebleau, now in the Cabinet Interieure de la Dauphine, Versailles
Commode (1739) for Louis XV's bedchamber at Versailles, now in the Wallace Collection