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Nicolas Gourdain
(? - 1753)
,
Charles Cressent
(1685 - 1768)
Cartel: l'Amour vainqueur du Temps
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Arnaudet
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
pendulum (clock)
putto
Louis XV style
Saturn (god)
Rocaille
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About the artwork
Title:
Cartel: l'Amour vainqueur du Temps
Periods:
18th century
modern age
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
Boulle marquetry
gilded
dorure
bronze
oak (wood)
bâti
tortoise shell (material)
ebony (wood)
veneer
Dimensions:
1325 x 470
Inventory number:
OA9586
Detail:
Vers 1740-1745 (?). Mouvement et cadran : Nicolas Gourdain
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Nicolas Gourdain
Dead:
1753
Author:
Charles Cressent
Born:
1685
Dead:
1768
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Charles Cressent
(1685–1768) was a French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style. As the second son of François Cressent, sculpteur du roi, and grandson of Charles Cressent, a furniture-maker of Amiens, who also became a sculptor, he inherited the tastes and aptitudes which were likely to make a finished designer and craftsman. Even more important perhaps was the fact that he was a pupil of André Charles Boulle. Trained in such surroundings, it is not surprising that…
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