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After Jean-Jacques Feuchère (French, 1807-1852)
Michelangelo…
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After Jean-Jacques Feuchère (French, 1807-1852)
Michelangelo…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €4,000
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Description
After Jean-Jacques Feuchère (French, 1807-1852)
Michelangelo clock
Patinated and gilded bronze, marble and leather.
The cartouche dial showing the hours in Roman numerals is surmounted by the figure of Michelangelo seated and leaning against a sculpture next to a plaque engraved "Michelangelo / Buonaroti / Pittore Sculptore / Architetto Fiorentino". Two slaves in the lower part holding a grotesque mask in a frame of plant garlands. It stands on a red leather base.
Inside a plaque marked "Rue des Fossés du Temple / Mudesse, Marbrier breveté / Paris".
Third quarter of the 19th century.
Height 79 Width 53 Depth 30 cm.
Restorations, the glass of the rear window is missing.
Provenance: private collection, Tours.
Bronze, marble and leather Michelangelo clock after Feuchère.
Related work: an identical clock in the Musée du Louvre under the number "OA11911".
The model of this clock was presented at the Universal Exhibition in London in 1851 by the bronze-maker Eugène Vittoz, publisher of the works of Jean-Jacques Feuchère. The company was taken over the same year by his son, who went into partnership with E. de Labrouë in 1852.
The figure of Michelangelo was revived from Louis-Philippe onwards, and even more so under the Second Empire, due to the rise of historicist fashion. It was part of this revival of the great Renaissance artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Bernard Palissy, Jean Goujon and Michelangelo. Feuchère's original sculpture of the artist's portrait was created by Feuchère in 1843, but was rejected by the Salon jury. Inscribed in the upper part of this clock, it shows the Florentine dominating slaves, reminiscent of "L'Esclave rebelle", now in the Louvre. Along with the Dying Slave, it was commissioned by Pope Julius II for his tomb in St Peter's Basilica, and given as a gift by Roberto Strozzi to Francis I in 1546.
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