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Celestial Globe (Globe céleste)
Jean-Antoine Nollet, Nicolas Bailleul le jeune, Guillaume Martin, and Étienne-Simon Martin1730
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
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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- Title: Celestial Globe (Globe céleste)
- Creator: Jean-Antoine Nollet, Nicolas Bailleul le jeune, Guillaume Martin, Étienne-Simon Martin
- Date Created: 1730
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Physical Dimensions: 109.9 × 44.5 × 31.8 cm (43 1/4 × 17 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Type: Globe
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Printed paper, papier-mâché, poplar, spruce, and alder painted with vernis Martin, bronze
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 86.DH.705.2
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Globe designed and assembled by Jean-Antoine Nollet (French, 1700 - 1770) Map engraved by Nicolas Bailleul le jeune (French, active 1740s) lacquer decoration attributed to the Workshop of Guillaume Martin (French, 1689 - 1749) and Étienne-Simon Martin (French, 1703 - 1770)
- Classification: Decorative Art (Art Genre)
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