Offered by Mora Antiques
A magnificent Empire mantel clock portraying Paul et Virginie, ca. 1800-1805
Based on a larger model of Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843).
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's novel Paul and Virginie, published in 1788, was a huge success and influenced the French Romantics as well as a number of fashion and opera and the clock cases.
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