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Lot Essay
Gabriel-Pierre Peignat, elected maître horloger in 1765.
Elie Barbezat, émailleur en cadrans, flourished from 1768-1776.
Gabriel-Pierre Peignat (d.1776), ouvrier libre dans l'enclos des 15.20, used clock-cases cast by the bronziers Robert Osmond, Gide and Hersent. He had a rich clientele including the marquis de Mailly and the comte de Ségur.
Although the figure of l'Etude is derived from the model by Louis-Félix de la Rue, this robust architectural goût grec model can be confidently given to the the bronzier Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain. An identical clock, with movement by Dutertre and case signed by Saint-Germain is illustrated in J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, fig. 239, pp. 314-5. A further example, also signed by Saint-Germain is illustrated in Pierre Kjelberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXème sècle, Paris, 1997, p. 252, fig. A.
The ebony plinth resembles those executed by Joseph Baumhauer, dit Joseph, such as that on the clock acquired by Horace Walpole for Strawberry Hill, Middlesex circa 1766 for £50 (sold Christie's, London, 23 June 1999, lot 120).
Elie Barbezat, émailleur en cadrans, flourished from 1768-1776.
Gabriel-Pierre Peignat (d.1776), ouvrier libre dans l'enclos des 15.20, used clock-cases cast by the bronziers Robert Osmond, Gide and Hersent. He had a rich clientele including the marquis de Mailly and the comte de Ségur.
Although the figure of l'Etude is derived from the model by Louis-Félix de la Rue, this robust architectural goût grec model can be confidently given to the the bronzier Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain. An identical clock, with movement by Dutertre and case signed by Saint-Germain is illustrated in J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, fig. 239, pp. 314-5. A further example, also signed by Saint-Germain is illustrated in Pierre Kjelberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXème sècle, Paris, 1997, p. 252, fig. A.
The ebony plinth resembles those executed by Joseph Baumhauer, dit Joseph, such as that on the clock acquired by Horace Walpole for Strawberry Hill, Middlesex circa 1766 for £50 (sold Christie's, London, 23 June 1999, lot 120).