Decorative arts

Mantel Clock

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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1775
Accession number: 16.9
Maker: Jean-André Lepaute(Opens in new tab) (French, 1720–1789)
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 12 5/8 x 6 in. (37.5 x 32.1 x 15.2 cm.)
Medium: marble, gilt bronze, glass, brass
Description: The clock case features Youth, embodied by a barely-draped young woman, crowning Love, represented as Cupid.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection.
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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The motif of Venus and Cupid flanking the dial is frequently found on clocks of this date. When this clock was acquired in 1916, it was wrongly attributed to the school of the sculptor Falconet, an artist popular among Gilded Age collectors. The dealer Joseph Duveen convinced Henry Huntington to buy it by telling him it would make a nice set with a pair of Falconet sculptures already in his collection.

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