Mural I painted in my New Orleans home

Monuments of the Mississippi river

This is a wall mural I painted to look like 1830's French hand-blocked panoramic wallpaper. Titled Monuments of the Mississippi river. The mural shows elegant stately buildings along the Mississippi river starting from New Orleans to Natchez Mississippi with plantation homes in between, along with the people from the period. French Creoles, slaves, Free people of color and Indians.

Windy Hill Manor was constructed in the 1790's by Benijah Osmun. in the center with a Concord visible to the left, residence of the first Spanish Governor, Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, who built the house in 1794. On the mantel a collection of Old Paris porcelain.

Indians at play over a 1830's Louisiana walnut drop leaf table with Old Paris porcelain punch bowl and vase

The dance of Free woman of color with Louisiana plantations in background

 

Funeral procession and rosewood Rococo Revival chairs with original upholstery attributed to Alexander Roux from a South Carolina plantation. Primitive Louisiana Cypress tapered leg table with Paris porcelain vase.

 

Louisiana plantations, Free woman of color and pegioners brick octagonal building for pigeons. With rosewood Rococo Revival chairs with original upholstery attributed to Alexander Roux from a South Carolina plantation. Primitive Louisiana Cypress tapered leg table with Paris porcelain vase.

 

Natchez on the bluff being worked on

Detail of Indians picking bananas. 1840's French Boulle and ormolu clock in the Moorish style Old Paris porcelain.

Natchez on the bluff being worked on and 1840's French Boulle and ormolu clock in the Moorish style Old Paris porcelain and makeup Shields

 

New Orleans & Place d'Armes

 

Over-mantel hung with 1840's portrait of a Creole woman