Psyche's story - DESFOSSE & KARTH MANUFACTURE - Psyche at th - Lot 315

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Psyche's story - DESFOSSE & KARTH MANUFACTURE - Psyche at th - Lot 315
Psyche's story - DESFOSSE & KARTH MANUFACTURE - Psyche at the bath : Lés 5-8 - Psyché collected by an old man : Lés 16-17 - Psyché coming back from the underworld : Lé 22 - Reunion of Psyché and Love : Lé 26 Mechanical paper, with grey brushed background and grisaille decoration. Reissue of the wallpaper published by Dufour Marouflaged on canvas, (restorations, missing) 8 Lés of 53 cm - L : 424 cm The original series of this famous wallpaper is published by the Manufacture Dufour in 1815. Louis Lafitte (1770-1828) and Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781-1853) are the authors of the composition after François Gérard (1770-1837) and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), authors of the model. The whole was drawn and engraved by Xavier Mader (1789-1830). The twelve paintings of the story of Psyche refer to Jean de La Fontaine's novel Les amours de Psyché et Cupidon (1669), which was itself inspired by the tale L'Âne d'or by Apulée (2nd century). Its originality comes from its composition illustrating the cycle, in twelve panels that can be separated into several scenes. The success of this panoramic is considerable since it is reissued throughout the nineteenth century and again in the early twentieth century by the Manufacture Desfossé and Karth. Cf : Papiers peints Panoramiques 1790-1865, exhibition Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs 18 September 1990- 20 January 1991, p.262, n°4. MECHANICAL PAPER, BRUSHED GRAY BACKGROUND AND GRISAILLE DECOR. REISSUE OF THE WALLPAPER EDITED BY DUFOUR
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