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Lot Essay
Roger Vandercruse, maître in 1755.
Roger Van der Cruse, known as Lacroix, was one of the most accomplished ébénistes of the Louis XVI period. The brother-in-law of Jean-François Oeben (and subsequently Jean-Henri Riesener), as well as Simon Oeben and the ciseleur André Ravrio, Lacroix established his atelier in the rue du Faubourg Saint- Antoine and used two stamps, 'LACROIX' and the abbreviated version 'R.V.L.C.',depending on whether his patrons were private or marchands. Patronized by the marchands-merciers Pierre II Migeon (between 1751 and 1758) and Simon-Philippe Poirier, for whom he supplied furniture destined for Madame du Barry at Louveciennes, at the end of the 1760s, he also supplied commodes for the ébéniste du roi Gilles Joubert. His close professional and family links with Oeben are reflected in a table by Oeben of very similar form, also of sliding top and fitted interior with hinged compartments, but with a more distinctive ‘fish scale’ parquetry rather than the trellis pattern of this table (see R. Stratmann-Döhler, Jean-François Oeben, Paris, 2002, pp. 132-3, cat. 130).
Roger Van der Cruse, known as Lacroix, was one of the most accomplished ébénistes of the Louis XVI period. The brother-in-law of Jean-François Oeben (and subsequently Jean-Henri Riesener), as well as Simon Oeben and the ciseleur André Ravrio, Lacroix established his atelier in the rue du Faubourg Saint- Antoine and used two stamps, 'LACROIX' and the abbreviated version 'R.V.L.C.',depending on whether his patrons were private or marchands. Patronized by the marchands-merciers Pierre II Migeon (between 1751 and 1758) and Simon-Philippe Poirier, for whom he supplied furniture destined for Madame du Barry at Louveciennes, at the end of the 1760s, he also supplied commodes for the ébéniste du roi Gilles Joubert. His close professional and family links with Oeben are reflected in a table by Oeben of very similar form, also of sliding top and fitted interior with hinged compartments, but with a more distinctive ‘fish scale’ parquetry rather than the trellis pattern of this table (see R. Stratmann-Döhler, Jean-François Oeben, Paris, 2002, pp. 132-3, cat. 130).