A late Louis XVI gilt-bronze and white marble Bacchante mantel clock, 19th century

Related literature :

H. Ottomeyer et P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 280, fig. 4.13.11

H.L. Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris, p. 13

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel Dubuc, known as Dubuc le jeune, was one of the most renowned Parisian clockmakers of the Consulate and Empire periods (circa 1800–1820). His workshop was located on Rue des Gravilliers in Paris and was active from 1800 to 1817. He signed his works ‘Dubuc Le Jeune’ to distinguish himself from his older brother, Nicolas-Pierre-François Dubuc, also a clockmaker, who signed ‘Dubuc l'aîné’. His clocks featured in the collections of great aristocrats and high dignitaries such as Charles-Marie-Philippe Huchet de la Bédoyère, Mlle de Clermont-Montoison, widow of the Marquis de la Guiche, Senator Henry Fargues, and Marshal André Masséna, Prince of Essling and Duke of Rivoli.

 Dubuc the Younger died in 1819, leaving behind a body of work considered to be among the most elegant and precise in early 19th-century Parisian watchmaking.