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WALL HANGING END OF XIX CENTURY #958024

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 WALL HANGING END OF XIX CENTURY #958024
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Description: ? A WONDERFUL AND SPECTACULAR WALL HANGING. The work, under examination, is an hanging/tapestry carried out with the Jacquard technique. It shows a scene of everyday life, set in outside, where a young woman is intent on cleaning a lamp, placed next to a grocery store, and she winks a man who is by two buckets, while wringing wet clothes, just a moment before giving it to the woman. The spatial composition is perfectly balanced in depth, and all that allows to understand the details of the scene even in the secondary grounds. The bright light, that emphasizes the shadows in the foreground for example, allows to define the volumes and to recognize even the spices that are displayed in the shop window; the attention to the details allows to recognize the creases of the clothes and the decoration of the woman's stocking. The scene is set in the Paris of the end of the 19th century, in which you can feel the swarming of the everyday life, exemplified by the figures in the second ground, represented in different postures, but all of them put on the movement. Men with wig and bow are painted from behind, in the act of covering the streets in the second ground or going into the labyrinth of the alleys among the noble palaces, enriched with ornaments to the windows. The chattering of the women, who stop to talk in long walk, seems to permeate the handmade article and acts as sonorous background to the nice scene, that is at the same time romantic and that we see to take ...
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<tr><td>Condition:VERY GOOD</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:END OF XIX CENTURY</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:FRENCH PROVENANCE</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:23.7</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:16.1</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title: WALL HANGING END OF XIX CENTURY</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:AMERICA1 COTTON AND COMBED AND BIGHEADED MAKO? JACQUARD WORKING TO HIGH LICCIO, COLORATION WITH GRASS JUICE APPLIED ON A LOOM.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:ITALIA</td></tr>
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