marquetry panel

• The Roman women’s struggle for peace with the Sabines

• furniture and woodwork collection

• design: Januarius Zick, Germany, 1779
• execution: David Roentgen, Neuwied (am Rhein), 1779

• Bärte und Locken: nadelrissiges Nußbaumholz,

• Architekturteile: gefladertes Holz,

• Mosaikeinlagen: Nuss- und Ahornfurniere;

• height: 359 cm
• width: 373 cm
• weight: 446 kg

• H 267

• assumption , 1871

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

• marquetry panel, The Magnanimity of Scipio
• photograph, Fotografie der Marketerietafel: Die römischen Frauen ringen mit den Sabinern um den Frieden

• signature: Jan: Zick delineavit et / Dav: Roentgen fecit in Neuwied Ao 1779

In 1778 Prince Karl Alexander of Lorraine commissioned David Roentgen, for a sum of 1,000 Luisdor (13,650 florins), to make two marquetry panels for the audience chamber in his Brussels palace. They decorated the walls of the chamber as so-called “tapisserie de bois”; additional embellishments were the overdoors on the theme of the “Cardinal Virtues”. The panels arrived in Brussels on 23 May 1779 after a 10-days’ journey from Neuwied via Bonn, Cologne, Jülich, Verviers and Liège. (Witt-Dörring, Christian)

• MAK-Schausammlung Barock Rokoko Klassizismus

ausgestellt

• marquetry panel, The Roman women’s struggle for peace with the Sabines, Januarius Zick, MAK Inv.nr. H 267

• https://mak-wp.711.at/en/collect/the-roman-womens-struggle-for-peace-with-the-sabines_183450

• 14.10.2025