A Mid 20thC French Hand-Painted Trompe l'oeil Theatre Canvas Linen Backdrop sub-Religion & Relics patination and character with no

patination and character with no signs of structural loss – though some minor signs of old worm

with applied figured walnut veneers and stamped 'WT' to one rear sabre leg

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

which is old and dead

The specimens depicted are as follows:

A Mid 20thC French Hand-Painted Trompe l'oeil Theatre Canvas Linen Backdrop sub-Religion & Relics patination and character with noOrigin: 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