MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSÉ 1853 - Lot 83

MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSÉ 1853 Winter Garden, after a painting by Édouard Muller (1823-1876) A set of different strips enabling us to reconstruct (in part) this composition with a glass roof opening onto a landscape of snow-capped mountains, upper and lower flower borders and pilaster (the side pilasters are missing), as detailed below: - Lower border: 102x262cm and 102x238cm - Upper border: length: 400 + 164 + 283 + 66cm - Lower frieze with basins and snow-capped mountain landscape background 60x228cm - Pilaster: 370x57cm (1 sheet) - Pilaster: 1 sheet 302x69cm (on two different backgrounds: glass or white. To be recut to form the center pilaster) And a large roll of canopy. Condition: very fresh colors, but accidents and major tears. Bibliography: 1967 Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibition catalog, Trois siècles de papiers peints, N°102, reproduced p.115, "the composition could be modified according to the place to be decorated and this paper was sold in separate elements...".