Lot n° 185
Estimation :
8000 - 12000
EUR
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Result
: 17 280EUR
Pendule en bronze doré et bronze patiné noir figurant une al - Lot 185
Pendule en bronze doré et bronze patiné noir figurant une allégorie de l'Afrique - Époque Consulat, vers 1800.
Clock in gilt bronze and black patinated bronze representing an allegory of Africa represented by a young black woman dressed in a feathered loincloth and holding a bow.
with a feathered loincloth and holding a bow. Her foot rests on a turtle, a leopard is sitting next to her.
The base is decorated with a frieze of lovers hunting and fishing, and garlands. Six legs.
Consulate period, circa 1800.
H. 47 W. 37 D. 16 cm
The exoticism of the first half of the 18th century, oriented towards China and the Ottoman Empire, was followed at the end of the 18th century by a look towards Africa and America. It is largely inspired by the new ideas carried by literature: Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his novel Paul and Virginia (1788), Atala (1801) of François Rene de Chateaubriand.
Most of the clocks or candelabras "au bon sauvage" came from the hands of the bronze worker and merchant-merchant Jean Simon Deverberie (1764-1824). The drawing of this model, dated 1799, is preserved in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque nationale.
References:
- François Duesberg collection at the Mons museum and exhibition De noir et d'or. Pendules au bon sauvage, Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Histoire de Bruxelles, 1993.
- Sotheby's Paris, 2 December 2003, lot 43, dial signed J. S. Deverberie.
- H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Münich 1986, vol. I, p.381.
- "La pendule au nègre à l'heure de Deverberie", L'Estampille/Objet d'art, nov. 1991 p. 41.
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