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| Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style clock. Summer.jpg en Watercolour and gouache over lithographic line on laid paper Inscribed J B A / Imprie Lithoque de C Motte rue des Marais Fg St Gn Numbered 20 Dimensions 68 cm by 50 4 cm To be executed in gilt bronze; silvered metal dial; black marble platform The clock dial within a sheaf of corn standing against a quoined building flanked by a flail and winnowing basket to the right and the other side with the goddess Ceres her upraised arm holding a sickle; the base with a central relief scene of ploughing between trophies of agricultural implements The fruits of summer are here an allegory for the benefit Louis XVIII regarded as flowing from his reign Ceres Demeter in Greek was the goddess of agriculture and a bound sheaf of corn stands for the strength that stems from Concord Indeed Louis XVIII saw himself as a unifying king following the strife of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods repeatedly referring in his speeches to the artistic and commercial even industrial flowering that his regime was engendering Ceres had sometimes been worshiped as an earth-mother the prime source of fertility which in the present context may be taken as a flourishing economy and the agricultural implements of flail and winnowing basket vital to bring in the produce of the harvest as alluding to the tools for France ™s increasing industrialization a process of which Louis was well aware http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 7 author between 1815 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches | ||||
