DESFOSSÉ & KARTH COLLECTION - Lot 3

DESFOSSÉ & KARTH COLLECTION Two late eighteenth-century documents, strips of wallpaper for wall hangings, printed by the plate on planed paper, canvas-backed, of which: - Manufacture LEGRAND or DUFOUR (?). One strip on a blue background with polychrome decoration inspired by nature: hunting dogs, butterflies, gazebo. Draughtsman MERII or MERY le Pére, circa 1800. 57x54cm Bibliography, for the model signed and dated 1797 of this document: - Trois siècles de papiers peint, MAD, 1967, N°355 reproduced p.41. - Art et artistes du papier peint en france, MAD, 2007, p. 192. - Wallpaper printed on a gray background on the theme of love (doves, arrows, putto). Collection mark DK157. 128x63cm Condition: documentary.