CHEST OF DRAWERS
c. 1675
Medium
Inlaid with mother-of-pearl & bone, panels & ebonied columns
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1947
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE
SPURS
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
André GIRARD
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
EWER
CHELSEA (manufacturer)
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
VASE
Furstenberg (manufacturer)
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
TUMBLER
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
International Exposition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Paul-Marcel DAMMANN (designer)
Kubus, stacking storage containers
Wilhelm WAGENFELD (designer); Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke A.G., Weisswasser (manufacturer)
JAR
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Charles LOUPOT
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
A la ville Albane
UNKNOWN