Lot 88
88
A SET OF SIXTEEN PAPIER PEINT PANELS
A SET OF SIXTEEN PAPIER PEINT PANELS

20TH CENTURY, BY ZUBER ET CIE

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A SET OF SIXTEEN PAPIER PEINT PANELS
20th Century, by Zuber et Cie
From the series Views of Switzerland, depicting mountainous panoramas with figures and animals trekking through a verdant landscape, numbered 1 through 16, with printed label "Les Vues de Suisse/Peints par Mongin 1802/et editees par Zuber & Cie/Rixheim"
Each panel; 162in. (411cm) high, 27in. (70cm.) wide (16)

Lot Essay

The original edition of Views of Switzerland, one of the first papier peints paysages to be produced, was published after designs by Pierre-Antoine Mangin. He used a variety of sources including contemporary engravings and romantic landscape paintings by artists such as Caspar Wolf (see O. Nouvel-Kammerer, Papier Peints Panoramiques, Paris, 1991, pp. 294-5).