Étienne LeNoir (watchmaker)

Étienne LeNoir (also Lenoir and Le Noir, * 1699 in Paris ; † 1778 there , master since 1717) was a French watchmaker .

Life

LeNoir came from a family of watchmakers that had lived in Paris since the 16th century. In his time he was one of the outstanding masters of his craft . His reputation was not based on his own inventions, but on his ability to produce watches of consistently high quality in large numbers in his well-organized company. His sons Étienne LeNoir II. And Pierre Étienne LeNoir also signed their products with their father's name, which was effective in advertising. The workshop existed until the 1820s and continued to use this signature. The brothers managed the family business and worked together with renowned bronzers and boîtiers. Among others with Charles Cressent and Jacques Dubois . They supplied important watch dealers and the courts in Madrid, Naples and Munich.

Pendulum clock Paris around 1765

LeNoir watches with bronze mountings can be found in:

Munich residence
Wilhelmsthal Castle , Calden
Hermitage , St. Petersburg
J. Paul Getty Museum , Malibu
Small wall cartel, engraved and gilded bronze, decorated with leaves and flowers, inscribed on the dial with "Etienne Lenoir, à Paris" from the time of Louis XV.
Gilt bronze, with rock garden and flower decoration from the time of Louis XV.
Wall clock with case made of soft porcelain and partially gold-plated brass, dial: white enamel, clockwork: brass and steel

literature

Lenoir, Etienne . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 55 .
William S. Heckscher: Bernini's Elephant and Obelisk . In: The Art Bulletin . tape 29 , no. 3 , September 1947, ISSN 0004-3079 , pp. 155-182 , doi : 10.2307 / 3047128 , JSTOR : 3047128 .
Pierre Kjellberg: Encyclopédie de la pendule française: du Moyen-age au XXe siècle . Editions de l'Amateur, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85917-244-0 , pp. 141 .

Web links

Commons : Étienne Le Noir - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Chimney pendulum "A l'Elephant" kollerauktionen.ch

Individual evidence

^ Mantle clock in Rococo style. Maas Museum, accessed November 24, 2019 .
^ Galerie Georges Petit (ed.): Objets d'art et d'ameublement principalement du XVIIIe siècle . Self-published, Paris November 22, 1920, p. 11 , object no.35 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
^ Galerie Jean Charpentier (ed.): Catalog des tableaux anciens… objets d'art et d'ameublement, faiences italiennes et de delft, porcelaines européenes, objets variés, sculptures, pendules, bronzes, sièges et meubles, tapisseries… Galerie Charpentier, Paris July 22, 1934, p. 14 , object no. 60 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
^ Wall clock (cartel) approx. 1735–40, clock maker: Etienne LeNoir. The Metmuseum, accessed November 24, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	LeNoir, Etienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lenoir, Étienne; LeNoir, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French master watchmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	1699
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	1778
Place of death	Paris

[1] Mantle clock in Rococo style. Maas Museum, accessed November 24, 2019 .

[2] Galerie Georges Petit (ed.): Objets d'art et d'ameublement principalement du XVIIIe siècle . Self-published, Paris November 22, 1920, p. 11 , object no.35 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[3] Galerie Jean Charpentier (ed.): Catalog des tableaux anciens… objets d'art et d'ameublement, faiences italiennes et de delft, porcelaines européenes, objets variés, sculptures, pendules, bronzes, sièges et meubles, tapisseries… Galerie Charpentier, Paris July 22, 1934, p. 14 , object no. 60 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[4] Wall clock (cartel) approx. 1735–40, clock maker: Etienne LeNoir. The Metmuseum, accessed November 24, 2019 .