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Joseph Baumhauer
Joseph Baumhauer (died 22 March 1772) was a prominent Parisian ''ébéniste'', one of several of German extraction.〔See note at Guillaume Beneman.〕 Having worked for some years as a journeyman for the German-born ''ébéniste'' François Reizell,〔Comte de Salverte (Salverte, ''Les Ébénistes du XVIII siècle'' 1927) first identified ''Joseph'', as for instance, the "Sr Joseph" in the employment of the ''ébéniste'' François Reizell and lodged in his house, rue Traversière, in February 1767, as Joseph Baumhauer .〕 he was appointed ''ébéniste privilegié du Roi'' in 1767, enabling him to skirt certain requirements of the Paris guild under royal privilege as well as a stiff entrance fee.〔 James Parker and Carl Christian Dauterman, ''Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,'' 1967:139.〕 He used the stamp ♣JOSEPH♣, the name by which he was commonly known to his contemporaries, between fleurs-de-lis emblematic of his royal appointment. Such stamps, like the long-mysterious B.V.R.B., served to mask the identity of cabinetmakers to the clientele of ''marchands-merciers'', such as Lazare Duvaux, who owed the "ébéniste Joseph" 1726 ''livres'' at the time of his death.〔Geoffrey de Bellaigue, ''The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes II'', 1974:863, citing Duvaux's inventory at Minutier Centrale, Étude xciv, ''liasse'' 290.〕 Furniture stamped by Baumhauer that is mounted with Sèvres porcelain plaques must have been commissioned and sold by Simon-Philippe Poirier, who maintained a monopoly of the production, having originally devised the decor.〔James Parker in Park and Dauterman 1967:139-41: cat. no.24, a small writing desk stamped by Joseph, mounted with Sèvres plaques, ca 1770; other similar writing tables are noted.〕 some furniture stamped by Joseph is veneered with panels of Japanese lacquer, another sure indication of the intervention of a ''marchand-mercier'', who, rather than the cabinetmaker himself, was in a position to purchase Japanese screens and cabinets, have them disassembled and, once the wooden support of the lacquer surfaces had been planed down, applied as costly veneer panels. Other ''marchands-merciers'' for whom Joseph is known to have worked include Thomas-Joachim Hébert and Charles Darnault.〔Parker, in Parker and Dauterman 1964:139.〕
The inventory of his workshop and stock in trade taken after his death following a long illness gives a snapshot of his current style; one of the appraisers was the ''ébéniste'' Martin Carlin, to whom Joseph owed 113 ''livres''. As might be expected in 1772, some of the furniture was in Louis XV style (''contournée'', "serpentine" in shape) while entries for other pieces revealed their Louis XVI character, such as a table with legs "a gaine avec des Canelures", that is, with straight, fluted tapering legs.〔Excerpts of the inventory are briefly interpreted by G. de Bellaigue 1974:864.〕 Most of the refined furniture bearing his stamp is in Louis XV style, employing crossbanded veneers of tropical woods rather than marquetry, and with sensitively-integrated gilt-bronze mounts that betoken close collaboration with the ''fondeurs-ciseleurs'' who made them, rather than purchases of stock mounts on the wholesale market.〔G. be Bellaigue (Bellaigue 1974:863) tentatively identifies three ''bronziers'' among the creditors at Joseph's death.〕
About 1745 he married Reine Chicot, of a family of Parisian ''menuisiers'', makers of carved panelling and seat furniture. Their son, Gaspard-Joseph Baumhauer, born in 1747, is thought to have taken over his father's business, using his father's stamp, a common practice of the time.〔Salverte 1927: Parker 1967:140 Bellaigue 1974:863.〕
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