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MEZZARO DELLA NAVE, Speich Manufactory, Genoa, Italy, c.
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200
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MEZZARO DELLA NAVE, Speich Manufactory, Genoa, Italy, c.
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,300
Voluntary lot
Description
MEZZARO DELLA NAVE, Speich Manufactory, Genoa, Italy, c. 1830,
cream-coloured cotton canvas printed using a woodblock. The design features a gnarled tree of life laden with heavy exotic flowers, standing on a flower-covered mound populated by small mammals. On either side are the ruins of a fortified castle, a sailing galleon and a giraffe being transported on a raft. This final detail alludes to the famous gift presented to King Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali, in 1827, which became a source of inspiration for the decorative arts, featuring a border with flowering Kashmiri palm motifs.
Mounted on a red canvas backing
(a few stains, a small loss and a tear on the border)
305 x 280 cm
Expert: Raphaël Maraval-Hutin
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
See original version (French)
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