Louis XVI Period Gilt Bronze Wall Clock 18th Century 18th Century Pendulum Clock

Louis XVI period wall-mounted cartel clock, Parisian manufacture, based on a model by the bronzier Robert Osmond (1711-1789) in gilt bronze. The original drawing of the cartel clock, known as the "large model ribbon cartel" or "royal model", is kept at the INHA library in a collection of clock drawings made between 1755 and 1780 (drawing reference N/36, inv. VI E 15). A first example was delivered by the clockmaker Lepine in 1767 for the bedroom of Madame Victoire de France at the Palace of Versailles, and a second, commissioned a few years later, for the apartments of the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI. Similar cartel in the vestibule of the Nissim de Camondo Museum. Another cartel in the collection of national furniture (inv. GML 7722 000). Sources: Gallery notice, La PendulerieTardy, The French clock 2nd part: from Louis XVI to the present day, p. 309. Jean-Jacques Gautier and Bertrand Rondot, The Palace of Versailles tells the story of national furniture, four centuries of creation, 2011, p. 106-107