Kansas museum buys rare 18th century writing desk by Parisian cabinetmaker

A bonheur-du-jour secrétaire by celebrated cabinetmaker Roger Vandercruse Lacroix (1728-99) has been purchased by a museum in Kansas from French dealer Galerie Léage for a six-figure sum.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, founded in 1933, purchased the writing desk for a pr…

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