A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'ETUDE'

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'ETUDE'

THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN-ANTOINE LEPINE, PARIS, THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1790

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'ETUDE'
THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN-ANTOINE LEPINE, PARIS, THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1790
The drum case with eagle surmount on a spreading pedestal flanked by figures of 'L'Étude' and 'La Philosophie', the shaped plinth with bacchic reliefs, the white enamel dial signed 'Lepine / Hger. Du Roi / PLACE DES VICTOIRES No.12', the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell, the crutch with fine adjustment, the backplate signed 'Lepine, her. du Roy A Paris, No. 4188'
18 ¾ in. (47.5 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Galerie R.M. Sturm, Munich,1981.

Literature

K. Maurice: Die französische Pendüle des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Ikonologie, Berlin 1967;
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel: Pendulen im "Style Empire". Meisterwerke französischer Bronziers, Weltkunst 54, 1984, S. 2088-2093
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel: Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Munich, 1986, S. 295, 599 Katalog Kunst in der Vereinsbank 1500 bis 1950, München 1997, S. 66-68

Exhibited

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Brillantfeuerwerk, 2008 - 2009 (p. 40 in the exhibition catalogue).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The two seated figures derive from the models of L'Etude et la Philosophie created for the Sèvres factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. The design is derived from one by Dominique Daguerre who commissioned the bronzier François Rémond to execute it in bronze circa 1783. In 1788 Daguerre delivered two of these clocks to Louis XVI for the Château de St. Cloud (see: P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 322).
Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720-1814), the maker of the present example, used the combination of Roman and Arabic numerals on dials, predominantly on watches, for a short period between 1788 and 1790. (Adolphe Chapiro, Jean-Antoine Lépine Horloger, p. 171.)

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