Robert A. Leath
Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

American Furniture 1994

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    Detail of A New Plan of ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA With the many Additional Buildings &. New Streets to the Year 1733. Etching and engraving. 16 13/16" x 23". Originally drawn by John Bonner and engraved by Francis Deming, this map was revised by William Price and Thomas Johnston in 1733. Berger’s residence was beneath Coal’s Garden on the northwest corner of Pond and Short streets and the Huguenot Church (marked K) on School Street. (Courtesy of The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Lady with Jewels, inscribed “J. Cooper 1714,” possibly Boston. Oil on canvas. 14" x 12". (Courtesy, Peabody Essex Museum.)

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    Figure 3

    Designs for birds and insects illustrated on pl. 11 of John Stalker and George Parker’s, A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing (Oxford, 1688). (Courtesy, Winterthur Library: Printed Books and Periodical Collection.)

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    Figure 4

    Designs “For Drawers for Cabbinets to be Placed according to yor. fancy” illustrated on pl. 18 of John Stalker and George Parker’s, A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing (Oxford, 1688). (Courtesy, Winterthur Library.)

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    Figure 5

    Design for a chimney wall with lacquered panels and porcelain in Daniel Marot’s, Nouvelle chemenées faittes en plusieurs en droits de la Hollande et autres provinces, Netherlands, ca. 1700. Etching and engraving. Like many of his contemporaries, Marot combined Oriental motifs with European baroque designs. (Courtesy, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. acc. 1988–4–48.)

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    Figure 6

    Ceiling design illustrated in Jean Cotelle's Livres des Ornemens pour Plafonds (Paris, ca. 1640).(Courtesy, Ashmolean Museum.)

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style

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    Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style