TABLE-TOP SCREEN, KNOWN AS A “CARROSSE” SCREEN, Louis-Philippe period, cylindrical...
TABLE-TOP SCREEN, KNOWN AS A “CARROSSE” SCREEN, Louis-Philippe period, cylindrical lacquered wooden frame with floral decoration; the panel features a gouache painting of a peacock and an exotic bird frolicking
(a few minor imperfections)
Case height: 62 cm
Panel dimensions: width 48.5 cm – maximum height (without fringes) 63 cm
Expert: Raphaël Maraval-Hutin
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
Engineer in the French Navy (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.
TABLE-TOP SCREEN, KNOWN AS A “CARROSSE” SCREEN, Louis-Philippe period, cylindrical lacquered wooden frame with floral decoration; the panel features a gouache painting of a peacock and an exotic bird frolicking
(a few minor imperfections)
Case height: 62 cm
Panel dimensions: width 48.5 cm – maximum height (without fringes) 63 cm
Expert: Raphaël Maraval-Hutin
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
Engineer in the French Navy (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.
