Chest of Drawers (commode)
.2 (marble top): 1 1/8 × 43 7/8 × 22 1/8 inches (2.86 × 111.44 × 56.2 cm)
On Chevallier:
Colin Demetrescu. “Les Chevallier: une dynastie prospère d’ébénistes aux XVIIIe siècle.” L’Estampille/L’Objet d’Art, no. 335 (April 1999): 66–82.
Comte de Salverte. Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle: leurs oeuvres et leurs marques, 7th ed. (Paris: F. De Noble, 1985): 58.
Pierre Kjellberg. Le mobilier français (Paris: Editions le Prat, 1978): I, 182–189.
Jean Nicolay, L’Art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Editions Pygmalion, 1976; orig. publ. 2 vols., 1956–1959): 32, 100–102, 601.
Jean Meuvret, Claude Fregnac, Francis Spar, French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century, trans. of Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle français (Paris: Hachette, 1963): 331.
Pierre Verlet, French Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, trans. Penelope Hunter-Stiebel (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1991; orig. publ. as Les Meubles françaises du XVIIIe siècle, 1955): 135.
On commodes:
Genevieve Souchal, French Eighteenth-Century Furniture, trans. Simon Watson Taylor (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961): 23–45.
Jean Meuvret, Claude Fregnac, Francis Spar, French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century, trans. of Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle français (Paris: Hachette, 1963): 328.
Pierre Verlet, The Eighteenth Century in France: Society, Decoration, Furniture, trans. George Savage (Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Publishers, 1967): 152, 154
Louise Ade Boger, The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles, enlarged edition (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969; orig. publ., 1959): 118–130, 137–138.
World Furniture: An Illustrated History, ed. Helena Hayward (London: Hamlyn, 1970; orig. publ. 1965): 114–117.
Pierre Verlet, French Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, trans. Penelope Hunter-Stiebel (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1991; orig. publ. as Les Meubles françaises du XVIIIe siècle, 1955): 109–110; 132
