Height: 3 ft. 3% in. (100.9 cm); Width:
ι ft. 6/8 in. (46 cm); Depth: 11% in.
(28.6 cm)
Accession number 72 .DB.55
PROVENANCE
Count János Pálffy (sold, Bad Pistyan,
Czechoslovakia, June 30,1924, lot 285);
[Etienne Levy, Paris, 1971]; [French and Co.,
New York]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Hotel George V, Haute Joaillerie de
France, June 1971; New York, The Frick
Collection, French Clocks in North American
Collections, November 1982-January 1983,
no. 38, p. 45, illus. p. 46.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, Clocks, no. 4, pp. 22-25, illus.; The
Country Life International Dictionary of
Clocks, Alan Smith, ed. (New York, 1979),
p. 90, fig. 6; Ottomeyer and Pröschel,
Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 40, fig. 1.2.5.- Wall Clock (pendule de repetition)
Paris, circa 1735-1740
Case attributed to Charles Cressent; move
ment by Jean-Jacques Fieffé pere
Gilt bronze; enameled metal; wood carcass;
glass
Dial painted FIEFFE DELOBSERVATOIR;
movement engraved Fieffé A*aris.
Height: 4 ft. 4/2 in. (133.3 cm); Width:
2 ft. 2/2 in. (67.3 cm); Depth: 5^5 /s in.
(14.4 cm)
Accession number 72 .DB.89
133PROVENANCE
Baron Mayer Alphonse de Rothschild,
Chateau de Ferneres, Tarn; Baron Edouard
de Rothschild, Chateau de Ferneres, by
descent; Baron Guy de Rothschild, Chateau
de Ferneres (sold, Sotheby's, London,
November 24,1972, lot 7); purchased at
that sale by J. Paul Getty.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Eveline Schlumberger, "Caffiéri, le bronzier
de Louis XV," Connaisance des arts (May
1965), illus. p. 83; Wilson, Clocks, no. 6,
pp. 34-37, illus.; Gerard Mabille, Le Style
LouisXV(Paris, 1978), p. 175, illus.; Otto
meyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 112, fig. 2.3.4.- Barometer on Bracket
Paris, circa 1740
Clock case attributed to Charles Cressent;
bracket attributed to Jean-Joseph de
Saint-Germain; movement by Digue
Gilt bronze; enameled metal; wood carcass;
glass
Dial painted DIGUE A PARIS.
Height: 4 ft. 2 in. (127 cm); Width:
ι ft. 5/2 in. (44.3 cm); Depth: 7% in.
(18.4 cm)
Accession number 71 .DB.116
PROVENANCE
[Duveen Brothers, New York]; Anna
Thomson Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse
Pointe Farms, Michigan (sold, Christie's,
London, June 24,1971, lot 40 [together
with no. 139 in this book]); purchased at
that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Duveen and Co., A Catalogue of Works of
Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection
of Anna Thomson Dodge (Detroit, 1933),
non-paginated entry, illus.; Theodore Dell,86 FRENCH CLOCKS AND BAROMETERS