Design for a Clock, Title Page to 'Cahier de six Pendules'

Jacques François Chereau|Jean François Forty|C. Colinet

ca. 1770 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Design for a clock with two putti supporting an urn. The urn's upper frieze is calibrated for the clock movements and a winding snake indicates the time. The putti are attached to the base in which the legs turn into foliage and connects them.

Artist

Jacques François Chereau|Jean François Forty|C. Colinet

Date

ca. 1770

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of the Estate of Ogden Codman, 1951