OEBEN, JEAN FRANCOIS

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OEBEN, JEAN FRANCOIS , French 18th-

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

cabinet-maker, is believed to have been of German or Flemish origin; the date of his

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

is unknown, but he was dead before 1767. In 1752, twenty years after

Boulle

BOULLE, ANDRE CHARLES (1642–1732)

's death, we find him occupying an apartment in the Louvre sublet to him by Charles Joseph

Boulle

BOULLE, ANDRE CHARLES (1642–1732)

, whose

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

he may have been. He has sometimes been confused with Simon Oeben, presumably a relative, who signed a fine bureau in the Jones collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. J. F. Oeben is also represented in that collection by a pair of inlaid corner-cupboards. These with a bureau and a chiffonier in the Garde Meuble in which bouquets of

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

are delicately inlaid in choice woods are his best-known and most admirable achievements. He appears to have worked extensively for the marquise de Pompadour by whose

influence

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

he Was granted lodgings at the Gobelins and the title of " lbeniste du Roi in 1754. There he remained until 1760, when he obtained an apartment and workshops at the Arsenal. His

work

WORK

in marquetry is of very

great

GREAT

distinction, but he would probably never have enjoyed so

great

GREAT

a reputation had it not been for his connexion with the famous Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV., which appears to have owed its inception to him, notwithstanding that it was not completed until some considerable time after his death and is signed by J. H. Riesener (q.v.) only. Documentary evidence under the hand of the king shows that it was ordered from Oeben in 1760, the year in which he moved to the Arsenal. The known

work

WORK

of Oeben possesses genuine grace and beauty; as craftsmanship it is of the first rank, and it is remark-able that, despite his Teutonic or Flemish origin, it is typically French in

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

.

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