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Jacques MARTIN - Gilles CHAUSSELAT
Commissaires-Priseurs judiciaires
associés
3, impasse des Chevau-Légers -
78000 Versailles - France
Tel. 01-39505808 -
Email scp.martin-chausselat@libertysurf.fr
Expert : Béatrice Loeb-Larocque
Vente
Publique
Versailles - France - 9 Mars 2003
Résultat : 30.000 Euros
Paire de globes céleste et terrestre. 
Cassini, Giovanni Maria
(1754-1824).
Paire de globes céleste et terrestre.
Cassini, Giovanni Maria (1754-1824).
Italie, fin XVIIIe ou début XIXe.
Hauteur : 59 cm. Diamètre de chaque globe : 33 cm.
Chaque globe est constitué de 12 fuseaux gravés et coloriés
à la main, avec leurs calottes pôlaires. Le cercle
méridien est gravé sur papier et appliqué sur bois,
les tables d'horizon composées de graduations du
zodiac et du calendrier sont appliquées sur un cercle
hoctogonal de bois fruitier.
Chaque sphère repose sur un cercle hoctogonal en bois fruitier à
pieds tournés et entretoises en balustres.
Bon état malgré quelques restaurations, impression bien
contrastée, limites en coloris ancien quelque peu estompé et
retouché. Les calottes pôlaires sont restaurées avec quelques
manques renforcés et habilement redessinés. Les graduations gravées
recouvrant les tables d'horizon ont été, en majeure partie,
restaurées et redessinées récemment.
La production de globes en Italie se
résume à trois principales figures : M. Greuter, Vincenzo Coronelli et G M
Cassini, nés respectivement au milieu de trois siècles différents, les 16ème,
17ème et 18ème. GM Cassini apprend son métier de dessinateur auprès de G.
Piranesi et entreprend sa carrière de cartographe en 1787. Il réalise les
taille douces de l’atlas romain intitulé Nuovo Atlante Geographico
universale réalisées entre 1788 et 1791. De même
que Coronelli dans son L
ivro dei Globi et contrairement à la plupart des
facteurs de globe qui
conservaient jalousement leurs fuseaux imprimés pour
éviter les copies, Cassini à
partir de 1792 favorisa la fabrication de ses globes par la vente du Nuovo
Atlante ou même par l’achat des fuseaux en feuilles séparées.
Globe similaire (globe céleste) au : Museo della
Specola, Bologna.
Estimation EURO 30.000 - 35.000
 
Pair
of terrestrial and celestial globes by G.M. Cassini, diameter 33cm,
height with stand 59cm.
Rome, terrestrial dated
1790, celestial 1792. Each globe covered by 12 printed,
hand-coloured, gores, with polar calottes. The meridian circle,
paper laid on wood, the horizon ring with zodiac and calendar
scales on a octagonal frame supported on fruit-wood stand, the
four legs united by cross-strechers carrying the
centrepost.
The globes are in good
condition, some imperfections are restored, but generally the
globes are good and dark impressions with some remains of old
out-line colour. The polar calottes are restored and small missing
parts of paper are re-inforced and carefully re-drawn.
The wooden horizon rings
are covered by printed zodiac and calendar scales, unfortunatally
the imprints are somewhat poor impressions and on many places the
names, scales and cartouches are during the recent restoration
process re-drawn.
Estimate EURO 30.000 -
35.000
The title of the celestial
globe reads as follows:
GLOBO
TERRESTRE
delineato sulle ultime osservazioni
Con i Viaggi e nuove scoperte
del Cap. Cook inglese.
IN ROMA Presso la Calcogafia Cam.le
1790
Gio. M.a Cassini C.R.S. inc.
One of the inscriptions
also carries a table presenting the length of the terrestrial great
circle in 14 different units. The globes shows the track of Captain
Cook.
The title of the celestial
globe reads as follows:
GLOBO
CELESTE
calcolato peril corrente anno sull
osservazioni de Sigg. Flamsteed
e de la Caille
ROMA Presso da Cale.le 1792
Ineisso P.Gio. M.a Cassini C.R.S.
The gores are
engraved with the classical constellations in figured forms and
with the more recently defined star groups of the southern
hemisphere. The globe is designed on a traditional external
perspective and uses the nomenclature of the French edition of
Flamsteed’s star atlas published in 1776. Cassini has copied
various other mapmaker’s works and introduces errors, showing "Il
Dorado" constellation as a swordfish, instead of a goldfish, for
instance. Dahl and Gauvin comment of Cassini "His globes are
idiosyncratic, containing elements that reflect academic learning
and scientific rigour, yet at the same time are concerned with what
was politically and religiously appropriate, and consequently
introduced elements that were foreign to science per
se."
Ref.: Dahl &
Gauvin, Sphaerae Mundi Early Globes At The Stewart Museum,
p.131-134.
 
Giovanni
Maria Cassini (1745-1812)
Cassini was a cartographer
and publisher in Rome in the late 18th and early 19th century.
He was one of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s best disciples and
one of Italy’s last globe-makers in the XVIIIth century. His globes
enjoyed widespread success as too did his Nuovo Atlante
geografico delineato sulle ultime osservazioni, published in
Rome from 1702 until 1801.
This important atlas
Nuovo Atlante includes gores for a pair of 33cm
globes. Cassini globes are found either mounted up from the gores
or presumably mounted from Cassini himself.
Similair globes
are to be found in:
Museo della
Specola, Bologna (Celestial, however equator, the tropics,
the polar circles and the ecliptic are all in
manuscript);
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