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Lot Essay
Pierre-Victor Ledure (b. 1783), was a marchand-fabricant of bronzes and clocks. His workshop is recorded from 1813 to 1840, first in the rue Neuve des Petis-Champs and later in the rue Vivienne.
Claude Hémon is recorded in the rue St.-Martin between 1812 and 1820.
The triumph of love and lyric poetry is celebrated by a myrtle-wreathed clock-face incorporated in an Egyptian 'altar' of porphyry-like granite. While a winged Psyche hovers at each angle above a pillar comprised of Jupiter's vivifying fulcrum issuing from love's torch, the central laurel-flowered bas-relief depicts Apollo's lyre borne by Cupids. This bas-relief also features on a clock-pillar accompanied by a figure emblematic of Study (see E. Niehüser, Die Fransösische Bronzeuhr, Munich, 1997, fig. 81).
Claude Hémon is recorded in the rue St.-Martin between 1812 and 1820.
The triumph of love and lyric poetry is celebrated by a myrtle-wreathed clock-face incorporated in an Egyptian 'altar' of porphyry-like granite. While a winged Psyche hovers at each angle above a pillar comprised of Jupiter's vivifying fulcrum issuing from love's torch, the central laurel-flowered bas-relief depicts Apollo's lyre borne by Cupids. This bas-relief also features on a clock-pillar accompanied by a figure emblematic of Study (see E. Niehüser, Die Fransösische Bronzeuhr, Munich, 1997, fig. 81).