MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSÉ Le Jardin d'Armide, created around 1855. Designer: Édouard Muller (1823-1876). Five strips forming one large complete panel. Woodblock printing. Very fine condition, never laid, very fresh coloring, but one poppy flower missing from the lower right of the central strip and one poppy flower missing from the lower left of strip No. 4, scattered wear and stains, and small tears around the edges. Height: 290 to 300 cm. Width 89 (the central strip) and 65 cm (for the 4 side strips) i.e. 341 cm wide (approx.). Exhibitions : One 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.