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Sun, Oct 25, 2015 11:00AM EDT - Tue, Oct 27, 2015 11:00AM EDT
Lot 705

FRENCH PAPIER PEINTE SIX-PANEL SCREEN, JOSEPH DUFOUR, PARIS

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
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From the series Les Incas, depicting a celebration at the Temple of the Sun, set within a landscape, now mounted as a screen; distressed. Each panel 79 x 22 1/ in.Literature: The five panels in this lot are numbers 4-9 from the complete set of 25 panels of the panoramic Les Incas, first published by Dufour circa 1818. The series was reissued by Desfossé & Karth in the second half of the 19th century. cf. Papier Peints Panoramiques, Flammarion, Paris, 1998, p.265.