Provenance

Marie Antoinette, queen of France [1755-1793], Paris. Algernon Green, Brooklyn, and Surbiton Hill Park, London.[1] (Jacques Seligmann, New York); purchased by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] These two owners are given in Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part 1, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 30, and from this source, are listed on the Corcoran's accession record for the clock, in NGA curatorial files. The connection to Marie Antoinette is described as "said to have belonged to" her, and, in later Corcoran label copy, as certainly to have belonged to her and to have been in the queen's boudoir, or private sitting room, in the Tuileries Palace in Paris. The French royal family was forced to move from the palace at Versailles to the Tuileries in October 1789.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2001

Bibliography

1925

Inscriptions

on the reverse, engraved or stamped in the gilded bronze under the feet of the sphinx: Thomire / 1789; on the clock face under the "XII": Robin; on the clock face above the "VI": h.ger [for Horloger] Du Roi; on the reverse of a bowl in the enamel urn on the left of the bier, in ink: Thuilerie Boudoir reyne

Wikidata ID

Q62288228