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Lot Essay
Charles Dutertre, received maître in 1758.
The son of an horloger, Dutertre supplied movements to Dominique Daguerre and employed cases by the fondeurs Saint-Germain, Gaulier, Portellette, Poisson and the Osmonds. Clocks with movements by Dutertre are recorded in the 18th Century in the collections of the comte d'Artois, prince Charles de Lorraine, the marquise de Langeac and Grimod de la Reyni/gere.
The mantel clock, conceived in the Louis XV 'gout Grec' fashion celebrates the triumph of 'Poesie' as symbolised by youthful bronze genii, emblematic of the goddesses of creative inspiration in poetry, song and other arts - the Muse companions of the sun-deity Apollo. Fame's trumpet is held aloft its unveiled, laureled and antique-fluted 'altar', which is attended by the music-making genii with tambourine and other instruments forming a pastoral trophy on its plinth. The latter, wreathed by imbricated libation-paterae, also displays a laurel-festooned tablet with the head of Erato, Muse of lyric and love poetry.
The son of an horloger, Dutertre supplied movements to Dominique Daguerre and employed cases by the fondeurs Saint-Germain, Gaulier, Portellette, Poisson and the Osmonds. Clocks with movements by Dutertre are recorded in the 18th Century in the collections of the comte d'Artois, prince Charles de Lorraine, the marquise de Langeac and Grimod de la Reyni/gere.
The mantel clock, conceived in the Louis XV 'gout Grec' fashion celebrates the triumph of 'Poesie' as symbolised by youthful bronze genii, emblematic of the goddesses of creative inspiration in poetry, song and other arts - the Muse companions of the sun-deity Apollo. Fame's trumpet is held aloft its unveiled, laureled and antique-fluted 'altar', which is attended by the music-making genii with tambourine and other instruments forming a pastoral trophy on its plinth. The latter, wreathed by imbricated libation-paterae, also displays a laurel-festooned tablet with the head of Erato, Muse of lyric and love poetry.