Lot 35
35
A CHARLES X PAPIER-PEINT SIX-PANEL SCREEN

Details
A CHARLES X PAPIER-PEINT SIX-PANEL SCREEN
CIRCA 1825

From the series Vues D'Italie printed by the Manufacture Dufour circa 1825, depicting a continuous scene of a river front villagescape en grisaille with peasants shepherding and boating before a mountainous landscape in the distance, each panel within beaded foliate borders the base with hippocampi flanking a classical vessel on ogee backet feet-each panel approximately 79 1/2in. x 23 1/2in. (20.2cm. x 58.7cm.)

Lot Essay

These six panels adapted as a screen are numbers 26-31 inclusive from the series Vues D'Italie as illustrated in O. Nouvel Papiers Peints Panoramiques, 1990, p. 301, fig. 63. Another part of the panoramic featuring the Bay of Naples is illustrated in N. McClelland, Historic Wall-Papers, 1924, p. 389.