Cattin, Jean Baptiste
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Nom
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Cattin, Jean Baptiste
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Date de naissance
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late June 1697
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Date de mort
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5 December 1767
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Lieu de naissance
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Fort du Plasne (Jura)
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Couverture temporelle
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1/2 18th century
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Biographie
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A clockmaker, like his brother Maximin, members of the horological community which developed in the region of Foncine during the late 17th century, Cattin was the son of Jean-Claude Cattin and Françoise Gros-Genardot. He merits an entry here for the astronomical clocks which he made for, and to the design of, Reginald Outhier (1694-1774).(1) One example, dated 1726, was presented to the Académie des Sciences in 1727 (2), while another was purchased by Louis XV in 1732 (3). Examples of the globe dated 1728 and 1731 (4) are known, as are two undated examples of which one, now in the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, although larger and now incomplete despite having been repaired in 1869, is probably that presented to the Académie in 1727 (5). A further example is known in which the globe was replaced c. 1800/1810 by one drawn after Messier and mounted through a flared, fluted, foot on a metre-high cyhlindrical marble column. Cattin was married with Geneviève Mayet (1696-1782), issue of a notable familiy of clock-makers established in Foncine and Bellefontaine. With her he had several children some of whom in their turn became clock-makers (6).
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Notes biographiques
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1 Reginald or Regnauld Outhier was born at La Marre-Jousserand in the Jura. Taking orders he became abbé and vicar of Montain near Lons-le-Saunier, but devoted himself to astronomy of which his globe design was perhaps the first fruit. In 1731 he was elected correspondant of the Académies des Sciences and in 1736 accompanied Maupertuis on his expedition to Lapland of which he published an account in 1744. Secretary to the Cardinal de Luynes, bishop of Bayeux, he was appointed by him to a canonry in Bayeux cathedral and drew a fine two-sheet map of the diocese and carried out a long series of meteorological observations in 1756. He died at Bayeux 12 April.
2 It is described in Gallon, v, 15-20. An English translation of this text is given in a catalogue of Jonathan Snellenberg (A la Vieille Russie', 781, Fifth Avenue New York), New York 1994, accompanying an example of the globe dated 1726.
3 Brune.
4 NMM G.137/36-333/GLBO137 and G.136/36732c/GLBO136, the latter being ex-collection Jules Strauss. See Dekker 227-38.
5 For the example in the Musée des Arts & Métiers see CNAM JB, 276-78. For the other Chayette - Sabrier 3 June 1983 lot 273. For the mounted example Dubreuil lot 197.
6 Lux Maillet-Guy, Histgoire de Granvaux, 1933.
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Identifiant
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1337
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