The Atelier
Horlogerie — Vue Perspective d’un Carillon
The bell machine, drawn in full perspective.
- Work
- Encyclopédie suite “Horlogerie” (Carnavalet impression)
- Maker
- Robert Bénard, after Fossier
- Date
- 18th century
- Held by
- Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content)
- License
- CC0
- Master
- 3774×2793px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
The carillon in perspective: a pinned barrel the size of a wine cask, reading its tune the way a music box does, hammers poised over their bells. The Encyclopédie's engravers loved these perspective views because they show what a parts diagram cannot — the machine as a presence, something you could walk around. This is horology at architectural scale, the same escapement logic that fits in a pocket here filling a room, and it remains one of the handsomest machine engravings of the eighteenth century.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
Horlogerie — Vue Perspective d’un Carillon printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content), served under the institution’s stated license (CC0) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
