The value of furniture by renowned cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler

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Rating and value of the artist Adam Weisweiler

Exercising in the second half of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th century, Adam Weisweiler is considered one of the most outstanding cabinetmakers of his time and stands out for his antique-style furniture with a whimsical intonation. He masterfully crafted pedestal tables, consoles, chests of drawers, secretaries and tables. The prices at which his pieces of prowess are sold range from €994 to €105,000. In 2020, a bronze pedestal table with an inlaid cookie porcelain panel sold for 70 500€.

Adam Weisweiler, 18th-century cabinetmaker

Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820) hails from the Rhineland, a region bordering the Netherlands and Belgium, where he is said to have trained in David Roentgen's workshop.

He took up residence in Paris on rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine at the start of Louis XVI's reign and obtained his master's title in 1778. He quickly gained recognition in luxury cabinetmaking thanks to his talent, and satisfied the desires of prestigious patrons such as the Queen, who asked him to execute a service for the demeure royale de Saint Cloud.

It was once thought that after the fall of the Ancien Régime he had returned to his native Germany, but he decided to stay in Paris and overcome the economic crisis of the Terror period. At the dawn of the Empire, he abandoned his craft to enter the world of business and the furniture trade. He created furniture, sometimes fanciful, that rivaled the most refined works by Riesener or Martin Carlin.

How did he mark his period ?

Adam Weisweiler had relatively little contact with Parisian clientele, and all his production was sold through merchant-merchants, in this case by Dominique Daguerre. He also worked for the courts of Naples and Russia. At the time, merchant-merchants imported panels of lacquer, generally transformed upon arrival in Europe and inserted into European furniture. For example, Weisweiler's chest of drawers at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, commissioned by Daguerre, marries Japanese lacquer with wood topping a frame with antiquis iconography.

Weisweiler preferably used precious and exotic woods such as oak, mahogany and ebony. We can admire his mastery of detail by observing the addition of copper baguettes, at the feet elegantly adorned with Doric columns.

Although marquetry does not remain his specialty, Weisweiler incorporates decorative fragments such as Sèvres or Wedgwood porcelain plates. These tenuous ornaments mark the prestige of his art. He continued his research in the vein of mechanized furniture and secret desks. The Austrian Imperial Furniture Museum, for example, exhibits the above two-leaf secretary flanked by two caryatids with inlaid porcelain medallions, made by Adam Weisweiler, which belonged to Marie Antoinette and was then given by Napoleon III to Charlotte of Belgium.

In fine, Weisweiler achieved success with small-scale furniture, such as the guéridon of extreme rigor counterbalanced by lightness, which offered him epidermal success.

How to recognize the stamp

Furniture by Adam Weisweiler is often stamped once or twice on the uprights, signed " A. WEISWEILER ".

How to find out the value of a work ?

If you happen to own a work by or after Adam Weisweiler, don't hesitate to request a free appraisal via our form on our website. An Auctie's expert will contact you promptly with an estimate of the value of your work, and provide you with all the relevant information. If you are considering selling your work, you will also be accompanied by our specialists in order to benefit from alternatives for selling it at the best possible price.