sht. 16

Giuseppe Valadier, Table clock with two lions borne by a winged putto at the base; central body in the form of a labrum adorned with caryatids and atlases on a corbel; frieze with dancing female figures; above, Atlas supports the circular clock face girt by the Zodiac belt, c. 1785-90, graphite, pen, brown ink, grey and brown wash on paper, 670 x 360 mm.; numbered upper left: “17”. The drawing is a design study for the clock by Giuseppe Valadier now in Waddesdon Manor (Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England). The drawing on sheet 85 in this album and two drawings in the Valadier workshop album now in the Museo Napoleonico in Rome, though more complete and with a number of variants by comparison with this drawing, refer to the same clock (Valeriani 1991-2; Museo Napoleonico 2008, p. 69; González-Palacios 2015, pp. 52-53).
Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 83; Valeriani 1991-2, p. 108, fig. 2.