Art for " piers ".

Let's say you live in the 1890s - 1900s and a holder of restricted cash and artistic taste , and you have to beat more often swap apartments .
You go to a " finished furniture store " and get it in line with the size of the room.
You are "empty piers " (between the windows, doors , etc.) and you pick up painting (mostly engravings , etc.) for specific sizes .
To this end, specialty stores , and sometimes in the same furniture you buy ingenious , craft painting , performed in various formats (horizontal, vertical , narrow , wide, small, large , etc.) with win-win stories (forest landscape, seascape , still life or engraving (most heliogravure ) known works ).
So it was acquired by the first customers your work .

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I fully agree with the respected Amateur-th.

Then at furniture stores even have teams of artists who worked for the piers pictures.

Often bought a pair of vertical landscapes.

Thank you all!
"Reneault".
Output before the master - or rather the mistress.