19th Century Pendulum with Regulate from Rousseau

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Red marble mantel clock topped with its Spelter sculpture signed Victor Rousseau (1865 - 1954).
The sculpture represents a young … Read more Red marble mantel clock topped with its Spelter sculpture signed Victor Rousseau (1865 - 1954).
The sculpture represents a young man embracing an indecisive young woman with his left arm while offering her a wedding ring.
The geometrically cut clock has a dial in its center with Arabic numerals and signed 'Lorient - Brest - Nantes'.
Its mechanism was revised in 2002.
It rests on 4 pink bronze feet decorated with foliage.

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Period: Late 19th - Early 20th

In a perfect state. Revised mechanism.

Width 34 cm - Depth 21 cm - Height 58 cm.
Dial diameter 10.5 cm.

Victor Rousseau (1865 - 1954): born in Feluy on December 15, 1865 and died in Forest on March 17, 1954, is a Walloon sculptor of Belgian nationality, from a line of stonecutters.
He started carving stone at the age of 11. He collaborated on the construction site of the Palais de Justice in Brussels, under the direction of Joseph Poelaert, and his attachment to this profession at the beginning of his life is reminiscent of Auguste Rodin. He then joined the workshop of sculptor Georges Houtstont and took courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
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