LARGE rectangular mirror with glazing beads and an ornate pediment...
LARGE rectangular mirror with glazing beads and an ornate pediment (assembled) in Regency style, from the Napoleon III period, featuring a beveled central mirror panel and a gilded wooden frame decorated with lambrequins and palmette spandrels
The openwork pediment is adorned with seashells and floral rocaille motifs
150 x 87 cm
(The tin on one of the irregular glazing beads)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
LARGE rectangular mirror with glazing beads and an ornate pediment (assembled) in Regency style, from the Napoleon III period, featuring a beveled central mirror panel and a gilded wooden frame decorated with lambrequins and palmette spandrels
The openwork pediment is adorned with seashells and floral rocaille motifs
150 x 87 cm
(The tin on one of the irregular glazing beads)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
