A PAIR OF INTERMEDIARY PANELS

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A PAIR OF INTERMEDIARY PANELS

From the series Les Muses designed by Mader Père circa 1825, depicting portraits of Terpsicore and Melpomene within a laurel wreath surmounted by a winged torchère en flambeau above a lyre and cornucopiae and ending in a ribbon-tied floral wreath in gold against a taupe ground (edges frayed)-approximately 7ft. 8in. x 2ft. 1 1/2in. (2m. 34cm. x 65cm.), together with another similar en grisaille and depicting Erato (edges frayed)-approximately 6ft. 4in. x 2ft. 1 1/2in. (1m. 93cm. x 65cm.) (3)

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A panel from the same series depicting 'Thalie' is illustrated in Clouzot et Follot, Histoire de Papiers Peints en France, 1935, p. 204; and another panel from the same series depicting 'Uranie' is in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.