MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSE probably after JACQUEMART Commerce - Agriculture - Astronomy - The Arts. 1852. Suite of four strips printed in the green-bronze plate style on a gray brushed ground, in the style of statues à l'Antique. Dimensions of one sheet: 136 x 57 cm. Height of figures: 108 to 110 cm approx. Source: E.A. Fauconnier's notes on Desfossé and antique wallpaper DK 1935/36, "1852, Les Statues, 4 figures en grisaille, Arts, Commerce, Agriculture, Astronomie, N°1946". Bibliography: Bernard Jacqué, Papiers peints l'histoire des motifs XVIIIe et XIXe siècle, three strips reproduced on pages 196 and 197: Commerce, Astronomie and Agriculture. "During the first half of the 19th century, wallpaper manufacturers marketed series of statues based on themes: The Muses, The Seasons, The Four Ages.... They were treated in cameo to imitate stone, bronze, gilded bronze..."