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Selected Works Time

This selection highlights the relationship between humans and time. From birth to death, through the passage of time with the rising and setting of the sun, man appears young or old, on earth, in the stars or beyond, whether in heaven or hell.

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Paintings

Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Old Man with a Young Boy

c. 1490
Sculptures

François-Joseph BOSIO

Henry IV of France as a Child

1824
Egyptian Antiquities

Sarcophagus box of Ramesses III

20th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses III, c. 1184-1153 BC

Valley of the Kings, tomb of Ramesses III (n ...
Egyptian Antiquities

The Zodiac of Dendera

Ptolemaic Period, reign of Cleopatra VII, 50 BC

Temple of Hathor at Dendera
Egyptian Antiquities

Tamutnefret's coffins

New Kingdom, Ramessid Period, 19th Dynasty, 1295-1186 BC
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Roofed spherical sundial

1st or 2nd century AD

Found in Carthage(?)
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

The "Sarcophagus of the...

c. 520-510 BC

Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri (Caere),...
Decorative Arts

Manufacture de Sèvres

Clock

C. 1762
Decorative Arts

Paul Hannong factory

Wall clock

C. 1750-55
Decorative Arts

André-Charles BOULLE (1642-1732), cabinetmaker; ...

Regulator

Circa 1720

Made for Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of...