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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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Mask of Rose Beuret

Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon)

Date:: modeled ca. 1880–82 or in 1898
Culture:: French
Medium:: Cast plaster, wood
Dimensions:: 13-3/16 x 6-3/8 x 6-5/8 in. (33.5 x 16.2 x 16.8 cm) H. (without base) 10-11/16 in. (27 cm.)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984
Accession Number:: 1984.364.10

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 800

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