After Martin Carlin
A Fine Louis XVI Style Mahogany Cartel Clock and Barometer
£48,000
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cartel Clock and Barometer, After The Model By Martin Carlin.The architectural case is surmounted...
Dimensions
Height: 152 cm (60 in)Width: 43 cm (17 in)
Depth: 18 cm (8 in)
PrintDescription
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cartel Clock and Barometer, After The Model By Martin Carlin.
The architectural case is surmounted by a finely cast vase en flambeau and enriched throughout with chased gilt-bronze mounts. Ribbon-tied garlands, trailing foliage and acanthus ornament frame the tapering mahogany case, while the circular white enamel dial is enclosed within a foliate border and signed ‘Robin’, referring to the distinguished Parisian horloger Robert Robin (1742–1799).
France, Circa 1870.
The design is based on a celebrated eighteenth-century cartel-baromètre in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. OA 6878, dating from circa 1780 and recorded by the Louvre as the work of Robert Robin and the workshop of the ébéniste Martin Carlin (c.1730–1785). Executed in mahogany and gilt bronze, the Louvre example shares with the present clock the distinctive architectural conception, vase finial and restrained classical vocabulary characteristic of the Louis XVI style.¹
The eighteenth-century model: Robert Robin and workshop of Martin Carlin, Cartel-baromètre, circa 1780, mahogany and gilt bronze, Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. OA 6878. © 2023 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre)
The Louvre example is recorded as having come from the Château d’Eu, subsequently entering the collection of Baron Basile de Schlichting (1857–1914) and was bequeathed to the Musée du Louvre in 1914. It is currently displayed in the museum’s Salle 622, Aile Sully. ¹
The present work is an accomplished nineteenth-century revival of this important eighteenth-century design, reflecting the period’s renewed appreciation of the decorative arts of the ancien régime. It has a distinguished provenance, having belonged to Baron Alexis de Redé (1922–2004) at the Hôtel Lambert, Paris, before being sold at Sotheby’s, Monaco, 26 May 1975, lot 253. ²
Footnote
1. Musée du Louvre, Département des Objets d’art, Cartel-baromètre, circa 1780, Robert Robin (1742–1799), horloger, and workshop of Martin Carlin (c.1730–1785), mahogany and gilt bronze, inv. OA 6878. The Louvre records the clock as made in Paris and documents its provenance from the Château d’Eu and the collection of Baron Basile de Schlichting; bequeathed to the museum in 1914. Musée du Louvre, inv. OA 6878.
2. The present nineteenth-century example is recorded as having belonged to Baron de Redé, Hôtel Lambert, Paris, and sold Sotheby’s, Monaco, 26 May 1975, lot 253.
Date
Circa 1870
Origin
France
Signature
The dial signed 'Robin'.
Martin Carlin was born in Germany in 1730 and emigrated to Paris to become an ébéniste. He was already active as an ébéniste by 1759, at which time he married Marie-Catherine Oeben, sister of the successful ébéniste Jean-Francois Oeben, for whom he probably worked until the latters death in 1763. Carlin died in 1785.
Carlin sold his works exclusively to middlemen such as the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre. He was particularly known for his furniture decorated with Sèvres porcelain plaques, and in the early 1780’s with Japenese lacquer panels. His first recorded piece of porcelain mounted furniture dates to 1763, a bonheur-du-jour now in the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham. He worked from designs provided by Dominique Daguerre, for the foremost collectors of the day, including the French Crown. Carlin shifted his emphasis after 1778 to producing sumptuous furniture decorated with Japanese lacquer, for the Merchands.
His furniture was purchased by, among others, Mesdames, the aunts of Louis XVI, Mme du Barry, the Duchesse de Mazarin, the Duchesse de Bourbon, the Queen of Naples and the Duchesse de Saxe-Teschen.
Baron de Redé, Hôtel Lambert, Paris, sold Sotheby’s, Monaco,, 26 May 1975, lot 253.
Musée du Louvre, Département des Objets d’art, Cartel-baromètre, circa 1780, Robert Robin and workshop of Martin Carlin, mahogany and gilt bronze, inv. OA 6878, Paris. Musée du Louvre, Collections, online collection record.
C. Dreyfus, Documents d’Art, Musée du Louvre, Le Mobilier Français, Epoque de Louis XVI, vol. 2 Paris, 1921, pl.17, p. 8.
Sotheby’s, The Collection of Baron Alexis de Redé and Baron Guy de Rothschild, Monaco, 25–26 May 1975, lot 253.
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