95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 369
Jean André Lepaute, 2230 mm, circa 1755
An important, rare and very fine Louis XV precision regulator with date and equation of time in a case of the cabinetmaker Claude Revault - former property of the Ducs de La Rochefoucauld - one month power reserve
Case: kingwood with satinwood inlay, firegilt bronze applications. Dial: silvered. Movm.: rectangular-shaped brass movement, weight driven by "Huygens" system, pin wheel escapement, brass pendulum rod and brass bob, pendulum spring suspension.
The case is signed by Claude Revault; the marvellous square marquetry work lends an aristocratic appeal to the timepiece, as was fitting for a client who was probably of French nobility. It is crested by a gilt vase of flowers; above the window for the pendulum bob sits a globe with the designation "Paris" above a telescope, a goniometer and a pair of compasses. Tem(p)s vrai, the real time, or equation is shown on a large disc in the centre of the dial - an astronomical complication which we owe to the wife of the maker.
Jean André Lepaute was born one of nine children of tool maker, metalworker and master of the guild André Lepaute and his wife Elisabeth Doulet.
In 1740 Jean André went to Paris at the age of 20 to begin an apprenticeship with a clockmaker. He later established his own business in Paris and his excellent reputation as a maker earned him many commissions for public clocks. In 1747 his younger brother Jean Baptiste Lepaute came to Paris to work with him.
During that time Lepaute received an order for a clock for the Palais du Luxembourg. When he delivered the clock, he met the astronomer Nicole-Reine Étable de la Brière. They fell in love and married on August 27, 1748. >From then on Jean André lived at the Palais du Luxembourg and the young couple regularly received their aristocratic friends there. Together with Nicole, Lepaute worked on the calculations for his astronomical clocks, calendar clocks and planetary machines.
He began working as maker to the royal court of Louis XV in 1751; in 1774 Jean André Lepaute retired from business and left it to his nephews Pierre-Basile Lepaute and Pierre Henry Lepaute. He died a year after his wife in Saint Claude near Paris at the age of 68. It was Jean André Lepaute who established the Lepaute dynasty of clockmakers.
Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Andr%C3%A9_Lepaute, as of 03/08/2017.
Claude Revault became a master in November 1755 and died only two years later on October 16, 1757. In the short time he had left before his death he worked as a freelance artist and produced mainly Louis XV-style furniture of supreme quality. We know of some commodes, escritoires and some clock cases of course.
An important, rare and very fine Louis XV precision regulator with date and equation of time in a case of the cabinetmaker Claude Revault - former property of the Ducs de La Rochefoucauld - one month power reserve
Case: kingwood with satinwood inlay, firegilt bronze applications. Dial: silvered. Movm.: rectangular-shaped brass movement, weight driven by "Huygens" system, pin wheel escapement, brass pendulum rod and brass bob, pendulum spring suspension.
The case is signed by Claude Revault; the marvellous square marquetry work lends an aristocratic appeal to the timepiece, as was fitting for a client who was probably of French nobility. It is crested by a gilt vase of flowers; above the window for the pendulum bob sits a globe with the designation "Paris" above a telescope, a goniometer and a pair of compasses. Tem(p)s vrai, the real time, or equation is shown on a large disc in the centre of the dial - an astronomical complication which we owe to the wife of the maker.
Jean André Lepaute was born one of nine children of tool maker, metalworker and master of the guild André Lepaute and his wife Elisabeth Doulet.
In 1740 Jean André went to Paris at the age of 20 to begin an apprenticeship with a clockmaker. He later established his own business in Paris and his excellent reputation as a maker earned him many commissions for public clocks. In 1747 his younger brother Jean Baptiste Lepaute came to Paris to work with him.
During that time Lepaute received an order for a clock for the Palais du Luxembourg. When he delivered the clock, he met the astronomer Nicole-Reine Étable de la Brière. They fell in love and married on August 27, 1748. >From then on Jean André lived at the Palais du Luxembourg and the young couple regularly received their aristocratic friends there. Together with Nicole, Lepaute worked on the calculations for his astronomical clocks, calendar clocks and planetary machines.
He began working as maker to the royal court of Louis XV in 1751; in 1774 Jean André Lepaute retired from business and left it to his nephews Pierre-Basile Lepaute and Pierre Henry Lepaute. He died a year after his wife in Saint Claude near Paris at the age of 68. It was Jean André Lepaute who established the Lepaute dynasty of clockmakers.
Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Andr%C3%A9_Lepaute, as of 03/08/2017.
Claude Revault became a master in November 1755 and died only two years later on October 16, 1757. In the short time he had left before his death he worked as a freelance artist and produced mainly Louis XV-style furniture of supreme quality. We know of some commodes, escritoires and some clock cases of course.
estimated
40.000—65.000 €
Price realized
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