Cartel clock
Also titled Cartelklok
Charles Cressent (Amiens, 1685–1767)
c. 1740 - c. 1745
- Medium
- bronze (metal), kingwood (wood), email, brass (alloy), oak (wood)
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 115 cm x width 52 cm x depth 38 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The famous Paris cabinetmaker Cressent trained as a sculptor. He excelled in working with gilt bronze. Surmounting this wall clock is the winged figure of Father Time with his scythe, threatening to cut the thread of life of Cupid, the god of love, who drops his bow and arrow in fear. Cressent created an asymmetrical Rococo composition, built up of a large scroll and motifs derived from nature.
