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Celestial Globe (Globe céleste)

Date

1730

Medium

Printed paper, papier-mâché, poplar, spruce, and alder painted with vernis Martin, bronze

Culture

French

Department

Decorative Arts

Institution

Getty Museum

Jean-François Nollet, a noted scientist who taught physics to the French royal children, designed and assembled this globe, which shows a map of the night skies. He dated the globe *1730* and dedicated it to Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont. Clermont was an important patron of the arts who became protector of the Société des Arts in 1728. This was a new organization established to provide collaboration between the arts and sciences; painters, sculptors, astronomers, clockmakers, architects, and goldsmiths were all members.

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