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Louis XVI Ormolu Cartel Clock,
Signed Lepaute, H-Loger du Roi
Gilt Bronze, Enamel Dial
Circa 1770
Very fine Louis XVI Ormolu cartel clock.
Expected wear to the case. Minor nicks around the keyholes of the enamel dial.
Beautifully cast. Signed “Lepaute horloger du Roy” on backplate of the clockworks.
This clock comes from the Galerie Gismondi in Paris, France.
Jean-André Lepaute, Maitre Horloger 1759
Jean-Baptiste Lepaute, Maitre Horloger 1766
An identical cartel clock, signed Lepaute a Paris,
is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopedia de la Pendule du Moyen Age au Xxe siècle, 1997, p. 191, plate F.
27 H, 13” W
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Jean-André & Jean-Baptiste Lepaute
Clockmakers
“Lepaute Horloger du Roi is the signature of the two brothers Jean-André Lepaute (1720-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (1727-1802), remarkable clockmakers born in Thonne-la-Long in Lorraine who were both “Horlogers du Roi” (Clockmakers of the King).
Jean-André came to Paris as a young man and was joined by his brother in 1747. The Lepaute enterprise, founded informally in 1750, was formally incorporated in 1758. Jean-André, who was received as a maître by the Corporation des Horlogers (Clockmakers Guild) in 1759, was lodged first in the Palais de Luxembourg and then in the Galeries du Louvre.
Jean-Baptiste Lepaute received maître in December 1776 was known for the Equation of Time clock he constructed for the Paris Hôtel de Ville and the clock of the Hôtel des Invalides.
The two brothers worked for the French Garde-Meuble de la Couronne and their clocks were appreciated by the most important conoisseurs of the time, both French and abroad, such as Prince Charles de Lorraine and Queen Louise-Ulrika of Sweden.