Collection Jean-Marie Rossi, D'un monde l'autre, Part II

An Empire gilt-bronze clock, circa 1810, attributed to Claude Galle, the dial signed Victor Cacheux

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Auction Closed

March 11, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 EUR

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Description

with Hercules, clad in the Nemean lion's robes, leans on a large tree trunk, holding three apples from the Garden of the Hesperides in one hand, his other hand resting on his club, on an octagonal base with the attributes of the demigod, on claw feet and bronze dial is signed "Vor Cacheux à Paris".

Haut. 48,5 cm, larg. 38 cm, prof. 15,5 cm ; Height 19 1/8 in., width 15 in., depth 6 1/8 in.

H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Munich, 1986, vol. I–II, p. 399, ill. 5.18.20 for a similar model.

Claude Galle was one of the greatest bronze casters of the late reign of Louis XVI and the Empire, notably working on the furnishings of the Château de Fontainebleau.

This iconography of Hercules at rest, leaning against a tree trunk, holding his club and wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, is inspired by the Hercules Commodus in the Belvedere at Versailles, sculpted by Nicolas Coustou, after the antique.

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