An Important American Classical Mahogany Lit de Repos, c. 1835, New Orleans, incised stamp "D. Barjon", height 32 in., inside width 25 in., length 69 in. Exhibition History: "Sankofa," various exhibitions, including Harriet Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA; DuSable Museum, Chicago, IL; Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 1994-Mar. 1995; The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; The African American Museum, Dallas, TX; and others. Note: Born in Jeremie, Haiti, at the turn of the nineteenth-century, Dutreuil Barjon came to New Orleans with his mother in 1813 and apprenticed with cabinetmaker Jean Rousseau (active 1810-1837). The Barjon shop advertised in the 1834 Michel's City Directory, offering "to the public a large assortment of furniture made in this city, and in the newest and most fashionable style." Two years after Barjon established his own firm at 245 Royal Street, Dutreuil Barjon, Jr. was born in 1823 The younger Barjon was isted as a cabinet-maker in the city directories of the late 1840s when he managed his father's shop. The elder Barjon retired to Paris in 1856, leaving operation of the firm to his son. Reference: Harrison, "The Nineteenth-Century Furniture Trade in New Orleans," Magazine Antiques, May, 1997, pp. 748-759; Moscou, "New Orleans' Freemen of Color: a Forgotten Generation of Cabinetmakers Rediscovered," Magazine Antiques, May 2007, pp. 540-4; Patton, "Antebellum Louisiana Artisans, The Black Furniture Makers," International Review of African American Art, 1995, p. 19; and Poesch, "Furniture of the River Road Plantations in Louisiana," Magazine Antiques, June 1977, p. 1188 Reproduced in Moscou, New Orleans' Free-Men-of-Color Cabinet Makers in the New Orleans Furniture Trade, 1800-1850, New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 2008, fig. 10.