Lot Essay
Pierre Veron, active in Paris 1741 - 1745.
This celebrated model, representing the arts, astronomy, poetry and music, was first executed by the celebrated bronzier Jean-Joseph de St. Germain. St. Germain is recorded in the Almanach Général des Marchands at the rue Saint-Nicholas in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine between 1747 and 1772.
A closely related example is in the Bouvier Collection, Musée Carnavalet, Paris and a further example, signed by St. Germain, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 126, no. 2.8.10. Two further examples with similar iconography but slight variations to the foliage are illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967/1969, vol. I, p. 165.
Another example was sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 10 December 1994, lot 242.
This celebrated model, representing the arts, astronomy, poetry and music, was first executed by the celebrated bronzier Jean-Joseph de St. Germain. St. Germain is recorded in the Almanach Général des Marchands at the rue Saint-Nicholas in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine between 1747 and 1772.
A closely related example is in the Bouvier Collection, Musée Carnavalet, Paris and a further example, signed by St. Germain, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 126, no. 2.8.10. Two further examples with similar iconography but slight variations to the foliage are illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967/1969, vol. I, p. 165.
Another example was sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 10 December 1994, lot 242.