An Early 20thC French Painted Canvas Trompe L'oeil Cathedral Interior Theatre Backdrop

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An Early 20thC French Painted Canvas Trompe L'oeil Cathedral Interior Theatre BackdropOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1915 25 Width: 92. 5 Height: 94. 5 The large hand painted theatre backdrop on canvas linen depicting an atmospheric scene in mauve grey and silver hues showing the interior of a large Cathedral, with ethereal light penetrating the two large gothic windows at eventide, the whole at almost eight feet high and signed Atelier. DeVare. Fontainebleau and surviving from the first quarter of the

The top two drawers benefit from having keys with working locks

starfish and shells

wild pigs)

the whole standing on a later square stepped plinth base and surviving from George III period England

only housed in museums

and are well modelled suggesting they were part of a high quality larger composition

not wanting the daily trappings of a complicated life

The wonderful sixteenth century painted and carved one-piece beech model formed as a lion

the whole surviving from the third quarter of eighteenth century Italy

on the one side

Width: 17”

There are several ‘Britannia Works’ complexes in the UK