Rare Antique French Alter Painting, Lambs, Backside is Dark Jesus, Alter Stand c.1840s napoleon III all framed in bronze stringing

all framed in bronze stringing

Lovely antique French Napoleon III Black Forest style hand carved 9

plus handle of woven/braided metallic thread

His major works are listed in Volume 2 (pp

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Rare Antique French Alter Painting, Lambs, Backside is Dark Jesus, Alter Stand c.1840s napoleon III all framed in bronze stringingA splendid and rare alter painting, lambs (representing the lamb of God), oil painting on board. And if you walk around the alter to the backside, you see the other painting, a dark Jesus against a halo of gold and red, a bit creepy. I remember seeing something similar in the British Museum, a similar flat and rather creepy Christ, only visible behind the alter. Another was on display in one of the museums in Washington D. C., from memory. I'm not