Thomas-Joachim Hébert (1687–1773) was a leading Parisian ''

marchand-mercier A ''marchand-mercier'' is a French term for a type of entrepreneur working outside the guild system of craftsmen but carefully constrained by the regulations of a ''corporation'' under rules codified in 1613. The reduplicative term literally mean ...

'' supplying the court (''suivant le Cour'') of

Louis XV of France Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

. In the 1720s, Hébert commissioned furniture from the workshops of André-Charles Boulle. Among the ''

ébéniste ''Ébéniste'' () is a loanword (from French) for a cabinet-maker, particularly one who works in ebony. Etymology and ambiguities As opposed to ''ébéniste'', the term ''menuisier'' denotes a woodcarver or chairmaker in French. The English equiva ...

s'' working to his commissions in later days was

Bernard II van Risamburgh Bernard II van Risamburgh, sometimes Risen Burgh (working by c 1730 — before February 1767) was a Parisian ''ébéniste'' of Dutch and French extraction, one of the outstanding cabinetmakers working in the Rococo style. "Bernard II's furniture is ...

; about 1750, he supplied furniture by Bernard to the minister

Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, comte d'Arnouville, seigneur de Garge et de Gonesse, was born in Paris on 13 December 1701 and died on 12 July 1794 in a French Revolutionary prison. He was a French statesman, son of Louis Charles Machault ...

, some of which can be traced in modern collections.See sale catalogue
Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 231, a pair of lacquer ''encoignures''
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French furniture designers 1687 births 1773 deaths {{France-artist-stub

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