MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSÉ 1855 Le Jardin d'Armide. Designer: Édouard Muller (1823-1876). The statue of Armide on a flowered basin, special woodblock print on white ground. Three strips (from the central panel). Height: 290 to 300 cm. Width 89 (center) and 65 cm (2 sides). Near-new condition, never installed, very fresh colors, but minor scattered wear and stains, and small tears around the edges. Bibliography: Odile Nouvel-Kammerer, Papiers peint 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 this Pradier sculpture in 1856.