Writing Table (table à écrire)

Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre)

c. 1775/1785

veneered on oak principally with tulipwood and purplewood, with ebony (or wood stained to resemble ebony) and boxwood for stringing; gilded bronze mounts

overall: 121.3 x 128.2 x 78.2 cm (47 3/4 x 50 1/2 x 30 13/16 in.); overall (depth of table top): 34.8 cm (13 11/16 in.); overall (height to table top): 76.2 cm (30 in.)

Writing Table (table à écrire)

1784

veneered on oak with mahogany, sycamore, ebony, and boxwood

The Marquesa de Pontejos

Francisco Goya · c. 1786

oil on canvas

Charles IV of Spain as Huntsman

Spanish 18th Century · c. 1799/1800

oil on canvas

Señora Sabasa Garcia

Francisco Goya · c. 1806/1811

oil on canvas

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Gainsborough · 1785–1787

oil on canvas