PENDULE D`EPOQUE TRANSITION LE GENIE DE L`ASTRONOMIE ET LE GENIE DU TEMPS COMMEMORANT L`ECLIPSE DU 1ER AVRIL 1764 - photo 1

PENDULE D`EPOQUE TRANSITION LE GENIE DE L`ASTRONOMIE ET LE GENIE DU TEMPS COMMEMORANT L`ECLIPSE DU 1ER AVRIL 1764

Lot 3
23.11.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 3 | PENDULE D'EPOQUE TRANSITION LE GENIE DE L'ASTRONOMIE ET LE GENIE DU TEMPS COMMEMORANT L'ECLIPSE DU 1ER AVRIL 1764
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€ 12 000 – 18 000
PENDULE D'EPOQUE TRANSITION LE GENIE DE L'ASTRONOMIE ET LE GENIE DU TEMPS COMMEMORANT L'ECLIPSE DU 1ER AVRIL 1764

ATTRIBUEE A ROBERT OSMOND, LES FIGURES D'APRES JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, SIGNATURE DE LEPAUTE HORLOGER DU ROI, VERS 1765

En bronze ciselé et doré et marbre portor, le cadran émaillé signé LEPAUTE / H. DU. ROI orné d'une large guirlande de laurier nouée et reposant sur un piedestal flanqué de deux putti l'un représentant le Temps qui passe par sa faux et le second, allégorie de l'Astronomie, tenant un compas, assis sur une pile de livres avec à ses pieds une carte figurant les calculs de l'éclipse centrale du soleil du 1er avril 1764, la base rectangulaire ornée d'une frise d'entrelacs fleuris, le contre-socle ceint d'un tore de laurier, les pieds en boule aplatie

H.: 60 cm. (23 1⁄2 in.) ; L.: 45,5 cm. (18 in.) ; P.: 25,5 cm. (10 in.)

La signature Lepaute Horloger du Roi a été utilisée conjointement par Jean-André Lepaute dit l'Aîné et son frère Jean-Baptiste Lepaute de 1758 à 1792







Provenance

Marquis Raffaele Luigi de Ferrari, Prince du Lucedio et duc de Galliera (1803-1876), palais Rosso, Gênes ;

Sir Edgar Vincent, premier vicomte d'Abernon, Asher Place, Surrey (1857-1941) ;

Probablement vente Christie's, Londres, 26-27 juin 1929 ;

Norton Simon (1907-1993) et déposé au Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1965-1971) ;

Vente Sotheby's, Parke-Bernet, New York, 7-8 mai 1971, lot 142 ;

Vente Sotheby's, New York, 7 décembre 1991, lot 10.







Literature

D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Genève, p. 151, fig. 117.

E. Niehüser, French bronze clocks, Atglen, p. 206, ill. 218.





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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PORTOR MARBLE MANTLE CLOCK ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT OSMOND AND SIGNED BY LEPAUTE, FIGURES ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, CIRCA 1765, COMMEMORATING THE ECLIPSE OF APRIL 1ST 1764

Historical era:Period of Louis XV
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