Height: 9 ft. 4 in. (284.5 cm); Width:
2 ft. 3^3 /8 in. (69.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 1 in.
(33 cm)
Accession number 74 .DB.1
PROVENANCE
English collection, nineteenth century; the
Duke of Medinaceli, Spain; [Smolen, Paris,
circa 1962]; [Manuel Gonzales Lopez-
Garcia, Galeria Velasquez, Madrid, circa
1965]; [French and Co., New York, 1972];
purchased by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
Madrid, Sociedad Española de Amigos
del Arte, El reloj en arte, May-June 1965,
no. 10, illus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Luis Montañés, "Un péndulo desconocido
de Julien Le Roy," Dersa (July 1967), no. 34,
pp. 8-16, illus. p. 1; Geoffrey de Bellaigue,
The James A. de Rothschild Collection at
Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and
Gilt Bronzes, vol. 1 (Fribourg, 1974), p. 54;
Wilson, Clocks, no. 2, pp. 12-17, illus.; The
Country Life International Dictionary of
Clocks, Alan Smith, ed. (New York, 1979),
p. 87, fig. 7; Luis Montañés, Relojes en ABC
(1983), pp. 96-99; Wilson, Selections, no. 9,
pp. 18-19, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 150,
illus.; Verlet, Les Bronzes, p. 114, caption to
fig. 141.132- Mantel Clock
Paris, circa 1715-1725
Case attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle;
movement by Paul Gudin, called Gudin
lejeune; figure of Chronos after a model by
Fran9ois Girardon
Oak veneered with tortoiseshell, blue
painted horn, brass, and ebony; enameled
metal; gilt-bronze mounts; glass
Movement engraved Gudin lejeune A*arts;
dial painted GUDIN LE JEUNEJPARIS.
FRENCH CLOCKS 85131