Mantel clock ("Pendule Clio")
Jean-André Lepaute|Jean-Baptiste Lepaute
ca. 1766–70 · Case: patinated and gilded bronze, and patinated copper (?); Dial: white enamel; Movement: brass and steel · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
French eighteenth-century clocks are among the most lavish ever made, requiring the collaboration of clockmakers, bronze founders, gilders, and others. Lepaute worked with the renowned sculptors Clodion, Augustin Pajou, and Jean-Antoine Houdon, who probably made the models for this clock. Like the Pendule Uranie (29.180.2), the model for this clock is mentioned in Jean-André Lepaute’s 1766 publication and described as the Pendule Clio (Muse of History).
- Artist
- Jean-André Lepaute|Jean-Baptiste Lepaute
- Date
- ca. 1766–70
- Medium
- Case: patinated and gilded bronze, and patinated copper (?); Dial: white enamel; Movement: brass and steel
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Bequest of Ogden Mills, 1929
