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Cartel clock
Also titled Cartelklok
Jacques Caffieri (1678–1755)
c. 1741
- Medium
- bronze (metal), gilding (material), email
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 64.5 cm x width 33 cm x depth 11 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum
- 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 renowned artist Caffieri signed the case of this cartel (or wall) clock, just like a painter signs a painting. The asymmetrical Rococo case shows the figure of Diana, goddess of the moon, looking down tenderly upon the sleeping Endymion. They are set in an imaginary framework of rocailles, plants, architectural elements and abstract motifs.
