THREE PANELS OF WALL-HANGINGS ON LINEN

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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THREE PANELS OF WALL-HANGINGS ON LINEN
late 18th century
The largest panel depicting figures returning from a hunt, some on horseback with their attendants, some holding falcons, others carrying their trophies, approaching a pavilion terrace on which ladies and children playing musical instruments greet the hunting party, all in an extensive mountainous landscape; the smaller panels painted with rural and agricultural scenes with pavilions and walled buildings, in one a small gathering are releasing caged animals, some minor restoration
160 x 86½ in. (450 x 220 cm.); and 67 x 86½ in. (170 x 220 cm.), framed (3)

Provenance

Count Senator Fedele Lampertico (1833-1906), of Palazzo Piovene Lampertico, Vicenza, Italy.

Lot Essay

Scenes such as these were much more frequently used on Chinese wallpaper of the 18th Century. It is extremely rare to find large wall coverings in linen. A painting in body colour on linen was brought back to England in about 1800 and is now in The Royal Pavilion, Brighton; see Margaret Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century, 1950, fig.50, p.99.

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