A Wonderful 20thC French Hand-Painted Canvas Linen Trompe l'oeil Theatre Backdrop sub-Curios The carving is relatively primitive

The carving is relatively primitive

hand painted with blue eyes

Evocative of the magic of the fairground

In the beginning

around a thousand years later

A Wonderful 20thC French Hand-Painted Canvas Linen Trompe l'oeil Theatre Backdrop sub-Curios The carving is relatively primitiveOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 50 Width: 39 Height: 88. 5 The large hand painted theatre canvas backdrop on canvas linen depicting an atmospheric scene in dusky mauve and taupe hues showing a neo classical stone faade with panelled walls and a Corinthian capital fluted column central to a balustrade staircase with an urn bearing an architectural plant, the background with a palacial lake to clouds and trees, the