Gazette Drouot - C apencheres

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30 GAZETTE DROUOT INTERNATIONAL I N° 19
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A royal provenance?
Here you can admire one of the flagship models of Charles Cressent,
a remarkable 18th century figure who was both cabinetmaker
and sculptor. The wall clocks designed by the artist in the
1730s were highly successful. He also produced several variants
of the genre, which can now be seen in famous institutions like
the Musée du Louvre and the Wallace Collection in London.
This wall clock in bronze, decorated with a figure of Boreas,
belonged to the type that was delivered in February 1745 for
the bedchamber of the Dauphine Marie-Thérèse Raphaëlle of
Spain at Versailles, and kept for a long time in the apartments of
Marie Antoinette. It was also the work of clockmaker Jean-
Baptiste Baillon (the movement bears the number 488), and
could be a famous royal clock that was never located. It will go
up as the star of a Paris sale on 7 December at Drouot (Thierry
de Maigret) with an estimate of €100,000/150,000.
Russian landscape
Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt von Yurgensburg’s work
features prominently at the famous Tretyakov Gallery, which
celebrates Russian painting’s various currents better than any
other, including the Peredvizhniki [The Wanderers in English],
who from the 1860s-1880s eschewed the classic training of the
academies in favour of contemporary Russian themes, seen
through the prism of realism. Like many of them, Klodt von
Yurgensburg was particularly interested in landscape, a genre
that celebrates the lives of ordinary folk and farm work. This
lively landscape (€12,000/15,000) belongs to a set of two paintings
that will be up for auction during the "Spirit of the Nineteenth
Century" auction in Fontainebleau on 18 November
(Osenat auction house). Stéphanie Perris-Delmas
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