MANUFACTURE DESFOSSÉ & KARTH: Psyche Descending into the Underworld—Psyche Returning from the Underworld. Pair of paintings on a single panel, Nos. 21 and 22. Gray-tone woodcut print. Good condition, never hung; small tears in the margins and scattered stains. Dimensions of one panel: 205 x 57 cm. Design area: approximately 182 x 54.5 cm. Note: Desfossé & Kart reissued the story of Psyche between 1872 and 1931—the date of the last print run—using the original plates incorporated into their collections through successive acquisitions, based on the original edition by the DUFOUR Manufactory produced in 1815 from cartoons by Blondel and Lafitte. Bibliography: Odile Nouvelle-Kammerer, *Papiers peints panoramiques*, Paris, MAD, Flammarion 1990, pp. 262–263.
Estimate
€300 - €500
Buyer's premium
32%
MANUFACTURE DESFOSSÉ & KARTH: Psyche Descending into the Underworld—Psyche Returning from the Underworld. Pair of paintings on a single panel, Nos. 21 and 22. Gray-tone woodcut print. Good condition, never hung; small tears in the margins and scattered stains. Dimensions of one panel: 205 x 57 cm. Design area: approximately 182 x 54.5 cm. Note: Desfossé & Kart reissued the story of Psyche between 1872 and 1931—the date of the last print run—using the original plates incorporated into their collections through successive acquisitions, based on the original edition by the DUFOUR Manufactory produced in 1815 from cartoons by Blondel and Lafitte. Bibliography: Odile Nouvelle-Kammerer, *Papiers peints panoramiques*, Paris, MAD, Flammarion 1990, pp. 262–263.
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