Antique French Rococo Oil Canvas Walnut Painting Landscape Cherubs Screen 1870 Sold Nordiska Museet

Nordiska Museet

a fine pair of 350 year old antique apothecary jars

public decorative monuments

like many other European painters was fascinated with North Africa and painted many oriental scenes of Algiers

The son of a painter and decorator well known amongst the leading Artists of his day

Antique French Rococo Oil Canvas Walnut Painting Landscape Cherubs Screen 1870 Sold Nordiska MuseetA fine antique carved walnut French Louis XV style Rococo three fold screen, with oil paintings on canvas depicting allegories of Spring and Summer, Austria, circa 1870. Ex Christie's sale. The screen is very finely carved in the Rococo style, each fold having a finely and elaborately carved crest with foliate and scrolled carvings, the sides of each frame carved with a recurring leaf motif. The screen retains the original oil on canvas paintings,