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Lot Essay
Probably Edmé -le Jeune- Mathieu, recorded in the rue Saint-Honoré between 1772 and 1789.
Michel Poisson became maître-fondeur-doreur in 1778 while living in the rue des Marmousets and took over the workshop of the clockmaker Mathieu in the rue des Grands Augustins upon the latter's bankruptcy in 1781.
This mantel clock, emblematic of 'l'Amour vainqueur du Temps', corresponds directly with the unsigned design in the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 138, fig. 98), which can be confidently attributed to Poisson on the basis of the identical clock signed by the bronzier, which was sold at Christie's London, 11 June 1998, lot 31. A further identical clock also signed Poisson is illustrated by P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Cahors, 1987, p. 259, fig. 287 and 288.
Michel Poisson became maître-fondeur-doreur in 1778 while living in the rue des Marmousets and took over the workshop of the clockmaker Mathieu in the rue des Grands Augustins upon the latter's bankruptcy in 1781.
This mantel clock, emblematic of 'l'Amour vainqueur du Temps', corresponds directly with the unsigned design in the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 138, fig. 98), which can be confidently attributed to Poisson on the basis of the identical clock signed by the bronzier, which was sold at Christie's London, 11 June 1998, lot 31. A further identical clock also signed Poisson is illustrated by P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Cahors, 1987, p. 259, fig. 287 and 288.