THE UPPER PANELS EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND LATER MOUNTED AS A SCREEN

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A FRENCH PAPIER PEINT TEN-PANEL SCREEN
THE UPPER PANELS EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND LATER MOUNTED AS A SCREEN
From the series Paysage De Telemaque dans L'Ile de Calypso and in two parts, depicting a continuous landscape vignette of Roman life above a painted panel border
120 in. (304.5 cm.) high, 18½ in. (47 cm.) wide, each panel

Provenance

The Estate of Pauline Settle Ney; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1987, lot 218.

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Lot Essay

This twenty-five panel panoramic series was first printed in 1818 and the original artist is unknown. The panels here depict the monumental palace of Calypso, with Telemaque leaving the hunt with Eucharis. Calypso sees them and is overcome with jealousy. (O. Nouvel-Kammerer, Papiers Peints Panoramiques, Paris, 1990, p. 262.). The complete series of this wallpaper was formerly in the home of Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee.

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