MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSÉ - Lot 52

MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSÉ Le Jardin d'Armide, created around 1855. Designer: Édouard Muller (1823-1876). Central leaf with Armide statue. Working document or trial proof, plate printing and collage. Wear, stains, tears and missing parts. Height: 290 cm. Width 89 cm (approx.). Exhibitions: A complete example was shown at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle. Bibliography: Odile Nouvel-Kammerer, Papiers peints panoramiques, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Flammarion, 1990 p. 286 and 287. Source of inspiration: The statue of Armide is a life-size reproduction of James Pradier's Pandora (exhibited at the Salon of 1850 and in London in 1851), with only the diadem replaced by bindweed. The foundry Labroue marketed a reduction of this Pradier sculpture in 1856.