PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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TABLE-TOP SCREEN, KNOWN AS A ‘CARROSSE’ SCREEN, Louis-Philip…
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217
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TABLE-TOP SCREEN, KNOWN AS A ‘CARROSSE’ SCREEN, Louis-Philip…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
TABLE-TOP SCREEN, KNOWN AS A ‘CARROSSE’ SCREEN, Louis-Philippe period, cylindrical lacquered wooden frame with a floral design; the panel features a gouache decoration of a peacock and an exotic bird frolicking
(a few minor imperfections)
Case length: 62 cm
Panel dimensions: width 48.5 cm – maximum height (excluding fringes) 63 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.
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