French Screens and Room Dividers

A French painted folding screen from the 19th Century. This antique folding screen features four tall panels with curved tops. On one side you’l...

French three panel decorative painted canvas folding screen with dogs playing in landscape scenes, perched musical monkeys, and foliage motif. Early 19th century.

M/781 - Interesting large hand painted on wood high screen : from France, mid '800. It can be the background of an entire wall: an imaginary garden with flowers' triumph; on the o...

This stunning 4Panel Room Divider screen from 19th century France is sure to make a statement in any room. Handmade with attention to detail, this free-standing screen features a b...

Presenting you this 18th-century antique three-leaf folding screen with oil-on-canvas paintings on the front and oil-on-paper paintings on the back. Some tears consistent with the ...

A 19th century studded leather three-sectional folding screen, or room divider, its decorative leather panels backed with canvas, and stretched over a hinged wooden frame. This unusu...

Antique French Louie XV style three panel folding dressing screen having decorative painted canvas panels depicting winged cherubs playing in green, red and ochre floral landscape sc...

Nineteenth century Screen with grotesques Measures: (5) Oil on canvas, 158 x 185 cm The screen analyzed is made up of five panels, each divided into two panels decorated with elements of the natural world on the upper level and grotesque decorations on the lower level. The grotesque is a type of ornamentation often used in painting, sculpture and minor arts, for example in ceramics and tapestries, developed at the end of the 15th century. The five upper panels refer to as many famous Aesop's fables, i.e. the first panel depicts the fable of The frogs ask for a king, the second panel instead represents the roosters and the partridge, the third panel has as its protagonist the famous fable of the Hare and the tortoise, while the fourth The crow and the fox, while the last panel probably represents the episode of the Fox and the stork. The screen owes its name to its singular and ancient origin; after the discovery of these decorations in 1480 in Nero's Domus Aurea, a palace that had been buried for centuries, under the pretext of imitatio antiquitatis, they were re-proposed in contemporary palaces. The palace of Nero was visited by many explorers, who descended into it and had the impression of being inside a cave, which is why, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, these particular decorations rediscovered there were called grotesque. The great success that the grotesques had is testified by Raphael's decorations in the Vatican...

Heavy 19th century painted French window shutter 3 fold screen, room divider This is a very heavy piece, the screen is 3 hard wood shutters w...

A French painted folding screen room divider from the 19th century. This antique accordion style folding screen from France features four tall rectan...

Highly imposing mid-19th Century French three-fold modesty screen or room divider. Each panel is enclosed in molded gilt frames with short scrolled legs and ornately carved scrolled crests. Upholstered on one side with pink 'Regency stripe' fabric and with plain silk on the reverse. Each with shaped glass tops which all have beveled edges. Folds completely flat when not in use. (Sometimes referred to as Dressing Screens or Draft Screens).

A stunning quality 19th century mahogany folding three panel dressing screen or room divider, featuring lovely mahogany panels below and astragal openings to the top part. Three mahogany wooden panels on triple swing hinges. The triple swing hinges allow the panels to swing both ways offering more adjustability. In very good condition. Great quality. A good piece of 19th century english antique furniture...