N. Petit

(Paris)

Biography

N. Petit

Nicolas Petit (1732–1791) was a major Parisian ébéniste, received as master in 1761. Working for over thirty years at “Au Nom de Jésus” in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, he produced Transition and Louis XVI furniture with floral marquetry, ebony, rosewood and fine bronze mounts, adapting elegantly to changing eighteenth-century decorative taste.