Record details

• generalData.authorNameInListings

  Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-1871)

• generalData.title

  Les funambules

• generalData.creationDate

  c. 1840

• technicalData.measurements

  70 x 46 x 29 cm

• technicalData.description

  Musical automaton with animated scene and clock. The automaton perform fourteen different movements and contain two musical compositions. All figures are automated.
  Mahogany and satin marquetry box with Paris machinery clock and glass lamppost. Possibly this is a model distributed by Alphonse Giroux in Paris.