A Mid 20thC French Hand-Painted Trompe l'oeil Theatre Canvas Linen Backdrop sub-Religion & Relics This probably has a religious

This probably has a religious significance

the murderer may have cut a strip of cloth from his victim's clothing to bandage a cut hand

the whole surviving from the zeniths of nineteenth century France

though there is wear to the brass work plate

A Mid 20thC French Hand-Painted Trompe l'oeil Theatre Canvas Linen Backdrop sub-Religion & Relics This probably has a religiousOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 50 Width: 62 Height: 86 The large hand painted theatre canvas backdrop on canvas linen, in shades of ivories and greys, depicting a large carved white marble classical urn, in the Robert Adam manner, being swagged and with a central cartouche with acorn finial, to angular handles and a scalloped base and set against a ruled inner border to a chocolate brown outer, the whole at over