# Table with crossed stretchers

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## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN CABINETMAKER, French](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Carved and gilded wood, marble top

## Commentary

The tables, commodes, and precious metalwork produced by the great workshops under Louis XIV should really be viewed as sculpture. They took Le Brun&#39;s designs into account and formed a complete ensemble with the wall decorations. Large tables featured curving, interlocked stretchers - the braces between legs - so substantial and original as to lend them the status of sculpture.

## Related artworks

- [Armchair](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6/armchair-r2d65cf10139db6>)
- [Armoir](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6/armoir-r5aa8a225908aa1>)
- [Chest of drawers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6/chest-of-drawers-r67ee739266d39e>)
- [Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6/table-rc2bb061c2f5241>)
- [Washstand](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6/washstand-rb151449c017e23>)
- [X-shaped stool](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-cabinetmaker-french-r1386310e0c70a6/x-shaped-stool-r3ae9e34eaa03e4>)

## Attribution

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