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GOIJTHIERE, PIERRE (1740-18o6)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 292 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOIJTHIERE, PIERRE (1740-18o6) , French metal worker, was born at Troyes and went to Paris at an early age as the pupil of Martin Cour. During his brilliant career he executed a vast quantity of metal
work
  of the utmost variety, the best of which was unsurpassed by any of his rivals in that
great
  art period. It was long believed that he received many commissions for furniture from the court of Louis XVI., and especially from Marie Antoinette, but
recent
  searches suggest that his
work
  for the queen was confined to bronzes. Gouthiere can, however, well
bear
  this loss, nor will his reputation suffer should those critics ultimately be justified who believe that many of the furniture mounts attributed to him were from the hand of Thomire. But if he did not work for the court he unquestionably produced many of the most splendid belongings of the duc d'Aumont, the duchesse de Mazarin and Mme du Barry. Indeed the custom of the beautiful mistress of Louis XV. brought about the
financial
  ruin of the
great
  artist, who accomplished more than any other man for the fame of her chateau of Louveciennes, When the collection of the duc d'Aumont was sold by auction in Paris in 1782 so many objects niounted by Gouthiere were bought for Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette that it is not difficult to perceive the basis of the belief that they were actually made for the court. The due's sale catalogue is, however, in existence, with the names of the purchasers and the prices realized. The auction was almost an apotheosis of Gouthiere. The precious lacquer cabinets, the chandeliers and candelabra, the tables and cabinets in marquetry, the columns and vases in
porphyry
 , jasper and choice
marbles
 , the porcelains of China and Japan were nearly all mounted in bronze by him. More than fifty of these pieces bore Gouthiere's signature. The duc d'Aumont's cabinet represented the high-water mark of the chaser's art, and the great prices which were paid for Gouthiere's work at this sale are the most conclusive criterion of the value set upon his achievement in his own day. Thus Marie Antoinette paid 12,000 livres for a red jasper bowl or bride-parfums mounted by him, which was then already famous. Curiously enough it commanded only one-tenth of that price at the Fournier sale in 183 r; but in 1865, when the marquis of Hertford bought it at the prince de Beauvais's sale, it fetched 31,900 francs. It is now in the Wallace Collection, which contains the finest and most representative gathering of Gouthiere's undoubted work. The mounts of gilt bronze, cast and elaborately chased, show satyrs' heads, from which hang festoons of vine leaves, while within the feet a serpent is coiled to
spring
 . A smaller cup is one of the treasures of the Louvre. There too is a bronze clock, signed by " Gouthiere, cizileur et doreur du Roy d Paris," dated 1771, with a river god, a water nymph symbolizing the Rhone and its tributary the Durance, and a female figure typifying the city of Avignon. Not all of Gouthiere's work is of the highest quality, and much of what he executed was from the designs of others. At his best his delicacy, refinement and finish are exceedingly delightfulin his great moments he ranks with the highest alike as artist and as craftsman. The tone of soft dead gold which is found on some of his mounts he is believed to have invented, but indeed the gilding of all his superlative
work possesses a remarkable quality. This charm of tone is
admirably seen in the bronzes and candelabra which he executed
for the chimneypiece of Marie Antoinette's boudoir at Fontaine-
bleau. He continued to embellish Louveciennes for Madame
du Barry until the Revolution, and then the guillotine came for
her and absolute ruin for him. When her property was seized
she owed him 756,000 livres, of which he never received a sol, despite repeated applications to the administrators. " Reduit a solliciter une place a l'hospice, it mourul clans la misbre." So it was stated in a lawsuit brought by his sons against du Barry's heirs.


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