A set of five wallpaper panels representing the series of "Les Incas" by the Manufacture Dufour mid 19th century

each representing various scenes within a brass-mounted mahogany frame. One panel and two panels cut down to four.

Old minor marks, minor tears and some old stains consistent with age. In overall good condition.
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The series Les Incas was first produced by the Manufacture Dufour in 1819 and re-printed by Desfossé & Karth, Paris in the second half of the 19th century. The numbered panels originally containing 25, of which the present lot has numbers 3-8, 11-12 and 21-22. This set is reproduced in the annex as part of the catalogue raisonné compiled by Odile Nouvel-Kammerer for the exhibition of Papiers Peints Panoramiques, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1990, p. 264-265.
The Inca series, was one of many exotic panoramas much appreciated for their ethnographic and geographic representations of foreign lands. Many of these scenes represent pastoral scenes centering on man in harmony with his surroundings and society, a very poignant ideal after the turbulations of Revolutionary France. Often inspired from contemporary prints, Odile Nouvel-Kammerer notes that many of these scenes have been carefully edited to promote a sense of objectivity in order to create an idealized setting for the bourgeois interior (op. cit. p. 122-126).

See page 44 for additional photograph.