STEINITZ

Maison Steinitz, founded in 1968, is an internationally renowned gallery specializing in interior décor through its unique inventory of period “boiserie” panels, furniture, decorative arts and sculpture from the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth centuries.

The collection, carefully curated by Benjamin Steinitz, is the perfect representation of his refined taste, and the collaborative efforts of his dedicated team.

Due to the remarkable quality and uniqueness of its works, Galerie Steinitz has successfully earned the loyalty of a very selective clientele of sophisticated collectors, as well as museum curators from major museums throughout the world.

Today, more than ever, it remains an unmissable rendezvous for cultural exchange among connoisseurs, art historians, and experts, all united by a shared passion.

Provenance

• Collection of Edward George Villiers Stanley (1865-1948), 17th Earl of Derby, and of his wife, Alice Maud Olivia Montagu (1862-1957), Countess of Derby, daughter of the 7th Duke of Manchester, and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), consort of King Edouard VII of England (1841-1910) from 1901 to 1910, in their residence at Coworth Park, Sunningdale, near Ascot, in the Royal County of Berkshire, close to Windsor Castle, southwest of London; Sold in the posthumous sale of the Countess of Derby: Catalogue of the contents of Coworth Park, Sunningdale, Berks., sold by order of the beneficiaries of the late Alice, Countess of Derby, including old pictures and engravings, English and French 18th century furniture, decorative China en dinner services, a fine Savonnerie carpet, eastern rugs and carpets, and the household furnishings and appointments, Christie, Manson & Woods, in London, on 14 and 15 October 1957, lot n° 127.
• Collection of Lady Rosemary Margaret d’Avigdor-Goldsmid (1910-1997), née Nicholl, wife of Sir Henry Joseph d’Avigdor-Goldsmid (1909-1976), 2nd Baronet; sold at Sotheby’s in London, on 10 July 1998, lot n° 11, acquired at the sale by Ann and Gordon Getty.
• Collection of the renown philanthropist, publisher and paleoanthropologist Ann Getty (1941-2020), née Gilbert, and her husband, the American oil magnate Gordon Peter Getty (b. 1933), in New York

Comparative literature

• Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 2 vols., 1978, vol. II, p. 353-356, cat. n° 446.
• Peter Thornton, “Soane’s Kent Tables”, Furniture History, vol. XXIX, 1993, p. 59-65.
• The Treasure houses of Britain: five hundred years of private patronage and art collecting, exhibition, Washington, 1985, p. 234, cat. n° 155.