Lazare Duvaux

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Lazare Duvaux (c.1703 – 24 November 1758) was a Parisian

Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt, who furnished his residence in Paris, the Hôtel de Besenval, with the help of Lazare Duvaux.[1] Lazare Duvaux was retrieved from posthumous obscurity when his daybook covering the decade 1748-1758 was published in 1873;[2] it remains a central document of the decorative arts
of the mid-18th century.

Established in trade by 1740,[3] he was already a marchand suivant le Cour by 1747, when he figured, as "sieur Devos, marchand-orfévre", and supplying gold boxes, among the suppliers of the king's gift of jewels to the new Dauphine for her marriage to the Dauphin.[4] He moved his shop from the rue de la Monnaie in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois to the fashionable rue Saint-Honoré, the center of Parisian commerce in works of art and what the French called la curiosité.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Louis Courajod, Le livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, Paris, 1873; "Besenval", p. ccxxxi.
  2. ^ Louis Courajod, Le livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, Paris, 1873; Courajod's biography of Duvaux begins at p. lxviii of the introduction.
  3. ^ A debt entered in the Livre-Journal dates to 1740 (Courajod 1873:lxix).
  4. ^ Courajod 1873:lxix f.
  5. ^ Courajod 1873:lxix.
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