Lot Essay
See Tardy, La Pendule Française, 2ème Partie: Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris, 1975, p. 288, no. 6 for a similar example in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris also signed by Nicholas Arnould and painted with landscapes on a blue ground and p. 289, pl. 1 for a white-ground example in the collection of G. Hudelot signed Garrigues à Marseilles
Other examples are recorded in the Collections of a private collector (M. Georges Blumenthal, Paris, 1 December 1932, Lot 493) of Madame La Comtesse Chandon de Briailles (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1935, lot 65) and of J.P. Morgan (Parke Bernet & Co., Inc., New York, 8 January 1944, Lot 93).
Other examples are recorded in the Collections of a private collector (M. Georges Blumenthal, Paris, 1 December 1932, Lot 493) of Madame La Comtesse Chandon de Briailles (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1935, lot 65) and of J.P. Morgan (Parke Bernet & Co., Inc., New York, 8 January 1944, Lot 93).