Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)
Joseph Baumhauer|Laurent Guiard|Julien Le Roy
ca. 1757–60 · Case: gilded and patinated bronze on a base of oak veneered with ebony with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with black numerals; Movement: brass and steel · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Laurent Guiard provided the model for the figure titled “Time’s Employment” adorning this clock. The design proved to be among the most popular in eighteenth-century France. One of the most inventive clockmakers of the time, and clockmaker to Louis XV, Le Roy contributed significantly to the development of the marine chronometer. After his death, his son Pierre Le Roy used his name, making it difficult to distinguish the work of father from son.
- Artist
- Joseph Baumhauer|Laurent Guiard|Julien Le Roy
- Date
- ca. 1757–60
- Medium
- Case: gilded and patinated bronze on a base of oak veneered with ebony with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with black numerals; Movement: brass and steel
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1991
