维纳斯对镜梳妆 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	维纳斯对镜梳妆
品名（英）	The Toilette of Venus
入馆年号	1966年，66.28.2
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Etienne-Maurice Falconet【1716 至 1791】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1775 - 公元 1799
创作地区
分类	钟表业（Horology）
尺寸	整体: 19 3/8 × 14 × 10 1/2 英寸 (49.2 × 35.6 × 26.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	到了18世纪中叶，法国的钟表盒通常与雕塑和当时较小的装饰艺术有关。这座钟上有一组雕塑作品，名为《维纳斯的厕所》，描绘了女神坐在一张圆桌旁，旁边有一位侍女，可能就是弗洛拉。丘比特斜倚在桌子底部，指向时间，时间出现在桌子侧面的旋转章环上。长期以来，这一小型雕塑群的模型一直被认为是埃蒂安·莫里斯·法尔科内（1716–1791）的作品，因为其主要人物与法尔科奈1757年的大理石浴室很相似。"浴池"是由Sévres Manufacturer制作的微型饼干瓷器，其他许多瓷器都是由Falconet提供的模型制作而成。法尔科内还制作了嬉戏的婴儿模型，作为弗朗索瓦·托马斯·杰曼（1726–1791）的银饰，以及至少一个描绘三位优雅的时钟的装饰品，但没有直接证据表明他在这只时钟上制作了这些人物。小时和分钟的旋转表盘由一根长心轴驱动，该心轴与大理石基座上的钟点和半小时报时机芯相连。这种带旋转表盘的钟表是勒波特家族巴黎工作室的特色，博物馆的西古尔德画廊展出了最壮观的例子之一。
介绍（英）	By the middle of the eighteenth century, French clockcases were often related to sculpture and to the smaller decorative arts of the period. This clock, with a sculptural group titled the Toilette of Venus, depicts the goddess seated at a circular table and attended by a handmaiden, who can probably be identified as Flora. Cupid reclines at the foot of the table and points to the time, which appears on the revolving chapter rings that are set within the side of the table. The model for this small sculptural group has long been attributed to Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791) on the basis of the resemblance of the attending figure to Falconet’s marble Bather of 1757. The Bather was modeled in miniature and produced in biscuit porcelain by the Sévres Manufactory, where a number of other porcelains were made from models supplied by Falconet. Falconet also made models of playful infants as ornaments for silver services by François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791) and for at least one clock depicting the Three Graces, but there is no direct evidence that he modeled the figures on this clock. The revolving dials for hours and minutes are driven by a long arbor that is connected to the hour- and half-hour-striking movement in the marble base of the clock. Clocks with revolving dials of this sort were a specialty of the Parisian workshop of the Lepaute family, and one of the most spectacular examples is exhibited in the Museum’s West Gould Gallery.