Directory-consulate Clock

Rare model of a high-quality chiseling clock attributed to the famous bronzier Claude Galle according to the works entitled "Vergoldete Bronze, page 371. Éditions Klinkhardt & Biermann". Calendar movement signed "Kinable". Dieudonné Kinable, active from 1790 to 1810, was installed in the Galerie de Pierre at the Palais Royal no. 131. Known for being one of the most brilliant clockmakers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, he is responsible for the most fabulous Sèvres porcelain lyre clocks with dials painted by such virtuoso enamellers as Coteau and Dubuisson. Directoire-Consulate period clock attributed to the famous bronzier Claude Galle, movement signed Kinable whose subject represents the Eastern Roman general Belizaire guided by a child who serves as his guide. Scene from the French philosophical novel entitled "Belisarius", a work by the academician Jean-François Marmontel published in 1767. Often victorious, he is sometimes considered the last great Roman general. Through his successes, he contributed greatly to the reconquests of the Eastern Roman Empire desired by the Emperor Justinian, under whose reign he exercised most of his career. During his life, Belisarius was the greatest general of the Emperor Justinian but he then fell out of favor with him, sometimes due to rumors of participation in conspiracies against the emperor. If his personal responsibility never seems to have been engaged, these exclusions, in particular that in 562 shortly before his death, contributed to the development, in European art, of the myth of a general who died in poverty, a beggar as he is represented on this clock with a Belizarius begging for alms. Height: 50 cm Width: 49 cm Depth: 17 cm Weight: 37 kg Clock guaranteed for two years, free delivery throughout France.