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David Roentgen: Nemours Clock

Abraham and David Roentgen were renowned German cabinetmakers whose workshop was famed throughout Europe for its exquisite marquetry work and complex mechanical devices. Proportioned for a stately public room or library, this musical clock is likely to have been the first Roentgen object to reach the United States, belonging to Gouverneur Morris, one of the nation’s founding fathers. Not only does it tell time, but it also displays the interior works, which are hidden in most clocks.

This clock, from The Nemours Foundation, is featured in the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens (on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013).

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Allegorical female stautette: a Virtue or Sibyl

Agostino Zoppo (ca. 1520–1572)

Date:: mid-16th century
Culture:: Italian (Padua)
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: H. 19 in. (48.3 cm.)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Gift of Fred and Rita Richman, 1978
Accession Number:: 1978.422

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 536

Provenance

[ Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, New York ] ; Joseph Brummer , New York (until 1949; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 11–14, 1949, no. 495); Paula de Koenigsberg , Buenos Aires ; [ Jerry Eisenberg, Collector's Cabinet , New York ] ; Fred and Rita Richman (until 1978; to MMA)
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