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Wandverkleidungen mit klassizistischen Bildszenen im Interieur. 116 HAMPEL ONLINE Visit www.hampel-auctions.com for around 7.000 additional images.

HIGHLY DECORATIVE CLASSICIST PAPIERS PEINT WALL DECORATION, COMPRISING A COMPLETE SERIES OF TWELVE WALL-SIZED SCENES FROM THE WALLPAPER MANUFACTURER DUFOUR, PARIS Wallpaper board, each laid on canvas. Height: ca. 182 cm each. Width: min. 54 cm - max. 160 cm, according to the size of the depictions. With the subjects: “Psyche’s parents visit the Delphic Oracle” – “The abduction of Psyche by Zephyr” – “The bath of Psyche” – “Psyche showing her sisters her jewellery” – “Psyche overhears the sleeping Cupid and looks at him by candlelight” – “Psyche recognes her mistake” – “Psyche leaving Cupid” – “Psyche and the fisherman” – “Psyche gives Venus a water jug” – “Psyche visits the underworld” – “Reconciliation of Psyche and Venus” – “Psyche emerges from the underworld” – “Union of Psyche and Cupid”. The scenes are transferred in grisaille from paintings by French painters such as Gérard, Blondel, Prud’hon. Like other cycles, the wallpaper series was produced by the Dufour factory in Paris from 1815 and can be found in several stately castles and villas. The factory produced the following wallpapers in 1872, 1905, 1923, 1931ff. Repetitions produced. Literature: Discussed in detail and illustrated in the work: Papiers Peints Panoramiques, ed. Under the direction of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Flamarion, Paris 1990, pp. 262 - 263. All scenes illustrated there. cf. Gisela Haase, Bildtapeten, Leipzig 1978. € 200.000 - € 250.000 Sistrix INFO | BID Translate all texts into your preferred language on our homepage via Google: www.hampel-auctions.com 117

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