BY JACQUES VAN OOSTENRYCK, 'DIT DAUTRICHE', CIRCA 1770

Jacques van Oostenrijk, dit Dautriche, maître in 1765.
Born in the Low Countries, Jacques van Oostenrijk, maître in 1765, settled in Paris sometime before 1743, at which time he gallicized his name to Dautriche. Until he became maître, he worked as an independant journeyman, specialising in marquetry. Dautriche was for a long time established in the rue Traversière, moving towards the end of his life to the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Among his clients was the Comte d'Artois. When he died in 1778, his workshop was taken over by his widow Elizabeth Hannot and his son Thomas-Jacques Dautriche, who was later to take part in the storming of the Bastille. A closely related bureau à cylindre stamped Dautriche with identical mounts on the chutes is illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maitres Ébénistes Francais, Paris, 1956, Fig. M (sold Galerie Charpentier, 9 March 1954, lot 114, subsequently Galerie Charpentier, 14 June 1955, lot 59). It is interesting to note that the present is remeniscent to the oeuvre (Jean-François Oeben, maître in 1769). Another similar bureau à cylindre of near-identical form, with corresponding interlacing reserves, but stamped Oeben is indeed in the musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris. Another, stamped Oeben, sold North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, Christie's on the premises, 24-25 September 1979, lot 231.