Antoine Cronier, or Crosnier, (13 January 1732 - after 1806) was a noted clockmaker active during the second half of the 18th century in Paris, France.[1][2]
Cronier was born in Paris to Françoise née Boulard and Charles Crosnier.[3] He began his apprenticeship under Nicolas Pierre Thuillier in 1745, and by 1753 was working independently, with his workshop opening by 1759 at rue Saint-Honoré, 140. In 1763, he was recognized as a maître-horloger. His clocks used bronzes by Robert and Jean-Baptiste Osmond, Edmé Roy, René François Morlay, Nicolas Bonnet, and François Vion, and cases by cabinetmakers Jean-Pierre Latz, Balthazar Lieutaud, and François Goyer. He also worked with gilder Honoré Noël and tapissier Nicolas Leclerc.[1]
Today his clocks are in museum collections including the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom, [4] Musée Nissim de Camondo, Waddesdon Manor, Harewood House, the Residenzmuseum in Munich, the Neue Residenz Bamberg , the Royal Palace of Turin, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, the Nationalmuseet in Stockholm, the Huntington Library, the Pavlovsk Palace the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,[5] and the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum.[6]