{"id":93401,"date":"2021-05-31T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/?p=93401"},"modified":"2022-05-04T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:22:00","slug":"chest-of-drawers-attributable-to-thomas-hache-late-17th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/chest-of-drawers-attributable-to-thomas-hache-late-17th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Chest of Drawers attributable to Thomas Hache, Late 17th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”1″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ row_height_use_pixel=””][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=”yes” gutter_size=”3″ font_family=”font-134980″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ zoom_width=”0″ zoom_height=”0″ column_width_pixel=”800″][vc_custom_heading text_font=”font-202503″ text_size=”h1″ text_uppercase=””]Thomas Hache: the High-Flying Cabinetmaker[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

No\u00ebl Hache was not so much destined to cut precious veneers as to cut the dough pieces for which his father, a baker, intended him. However, this was not the case, as the young man had a different career in mind for himself. So he left the bakery to learn the art of cabinet making in Calais, soaking up Flemish and Dutch tastes and techniques. He later moved to Toulouse where his son Thomas was born. Like his father before him, Thomas Hache undertook a “grand tour” which took him to Paris where he undoubtedly did part of his apprenticeship with the famous Pierre Gole (1620 – 1684)<\/a>, cabinetmaker of Louis XIV. The workshop of this master of marquetry, a skilled colorist, was certainly a decisive step in the development of Thomas Hache’s technique and eye. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, the latter does not want to stay in Paris. Leaving the capital, and with it its opportunities for prestigious commissions and its ruthless competition, Thomas Hache left for Chamb\u00e9ry. The Savoyard town was under Italian rule at the time and the young cabinetmaker developed a catalogue of motifs characteristic of Italian taste. Finally, he settles down <\/span>in Grenoble, about sixty kilometres from the still Italian city. <\/span><\/p>\n

He enters the workshop of Michel Chevallier (sometimes spelled Chevalier). The man familiarized the young Thomas with the Dauphinois taste and the local essences. This taste will remain. After Chevallier’s death in 1697, Hache married the cabinetmaker’s daughter and inherited his father-in-law’s workshop. He became master in 1701. According to the wishes of a wealthy clientele, he produced furniture with elaborate decorations, full of bouquets, baskets of flowers, medallions and other foliage. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”93372″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

In parallel with this taste inherited from his years in Chamb\u00e9ry, Hache used natural or tinted burl panels on many of his pieces of furniture, raised with fillets on plain veneer backgrounds. Walnut, fruit woods, olive, sycamore and ash trees are tinted to taste in green, red, black moir\u00e9 or yellow when they are not left natural. Our chest of drawers attributable to Thomas Hache is a good example of this sober and elegant Dauphin taste, preferring to precious exotic woods local ones so well worked that one never tires of admiring their beauty. Without doubt, the magnifying burls are emblematic of his production and that of his successors. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”93388″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″][vc_custom_heading text_font=”font-202503″ text_size=”h1″ text_uppercase=””]Hache : Fame Beyond the Dauphin\u00e9[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]At the turn of the 18th century, Grenoble was placed under the authority of the Duke Louis d’Orl\u00e9ans (1703 – 1752), son of the Regent and grandson and grandnephew of Louis XIV. Appointed governor of the Dauphin\u00e9 in 1719, two years later he awarded Thomas Hache a cabinetmaker’s and guard’s certificate. The latter’s reputation, already well underway, is now sealed. The initially wealthy clientele soon gave way to the elite; it was now aristocratic and princely. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to the historian Fran\u00e7oise Rouge<\/a>, “the reasons for such a reputation lie as much in the inventiveness of the assemblies and forms as in the originality and quality of the decorations, favouring the use of indigenous woods and specific ornaments”. The furniture of choice <\/span>by Thomas Hache was the most fashionable at the beginning of the 18th century: the chest of drawers. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”93392″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ media_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fpipat-antiquites.fr%2Ffr%2Fobjets%2Fpaire-de-candelabres-bronze-dore-c-couronne-1745-1749%2F|title:Paire%20de%20cand%C3%A9labres%20au%20C%20couronn%C3%A9%2C%201745-1749|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

Who would have thought that a provincial cabinetmaker could claim to equal – and even surpass! – the best masters in the capital? At a time when it was almost inconceivable to attract aristocratic and princely favour elsewhere than by settling in Paris, Thomas Hache was an exception. For if the man possessed a certain and original taste in the handling of colours, he was also particularly ingenious. He developed a system that allowed him to place a marquetry or marble top on his luxurious chests of drawers upon request. The design of each piece of furniture was impeccable, the quality of execution remarkable. In Paris, Hache became a must. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, despite an unfortunate lack of interest in 18th century furniture, the productions of the Hache dynasty – and those of Thomas Hache in particular – are still exceptional. The inexhaustible savoir-faire of this cabinetmaker, but also the rarity of his pieces, is the explanation for this never-ending craze. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”93364″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ media_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fpipat-antiquites.fr%2Ffr%2Fobjets%2Fpaire-de-candelabres-bronze-dore-c-couronne-1745-1749%2F|title:Paire%20de%20cand%C3%A9labres%20au%20C%20couronn%C3%A9%2C%201745-1749|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]Before his son Pierre, stamps are rare and it is often very difficult to identify a piece of furniture from the hand of the master. Our chest of drawers is a piece of this exceptional production attributable to Thomas Hache. A true “piece” of history and cabinet making whose virtuosity is guaranteed to stand the test of time. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”817922″]<\/p>\n

Marielle Brie
\n<\/strong>Art Historian for Art Market and Cultural Media
\nAuthor of the blog Objets d’Art et d’Histoire<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Hache (1664 – 1747), son of No\u00ebl Hache (1630 – 1675), initiated – better than his father – the reputation of the dynasty, which was permanently established in Grenoble. Equalling and surpassing with phlegm the talent of the greatest Parisian masters, the furniture of the Hache cabinetmakers enjoys a constant interest today and maintains a serenely radiant rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Commode attribuable \u00e0 Thomas Hache, fin du XVIIe si\u00e8cle ","_seopress_titles_desc":"Thomas Hache initia brillamment la dynastie grenobloise. Surpassant le talent des ma\u00eetres parisiens, le mobilier Hache jouit toujours d'une cote rayonnante.\r\n","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[162,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dossier-art-antiquites","category-dossier-art-antiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipat-antiquites.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}