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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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Christ the Redeemer

Antonio Novelli (Italian, Pisa 1600–1662 Florence)

Date:: ca. 1650
Culture:: Italian, Florence
Medium:: Carrara marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 36 1/8 x 34 x 18 in., 800lb. (91.8 x 86.4 x 45.7 cm, 362.8776kg)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Purchase, Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso Gift, 2011
Accession Number:: 2011.596

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 550

Description

The bust was probably originally placed high in a niche. Its provenance is from the Villa Camerata outside Florence, which had earlier belonged to the Verrazzano, Albizi and Pucci families.
Provenance

[ Kristin Gary Fine Art , sold to MMA ]
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