MANUFACTURE ISIDORE LEROY The Judgment of Solomon. Designer: Arthur Martin, 1888. Decor in seven strips (complete) imitating a tapestry. Printed "a la mécanique" with the twenty-six-color printing machine reserved for exceptional decors, a technical feat never surpassed, and manufactured especially for Isidore Leroy in 1877. Dimensions of one sheet: 118 x 49.5 cm. Length: 3.46 m. Condition: Very good, but small tears (not missing). Exhibition : Model presented at the Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1889. One (partial) copy kept at the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris - one by the Hessen Kassel Héritage Museen, Germany - another at the Musée National Suisse Chateau de Prangin. Note: The 26-color printing press is now a listed historic monument, housed in the former Isidore Leroy factory in Saint-Fargeau Ponthierry (Seine et Marne), converted into a cultural center in 1986.