MANUFACTURE Jules DESFOSSE *Le Vieux Pont*, created in 1862. Original full-scale model in five panels, gray-scale gouache on paper, with cutouts and collages for fine-tuning, and annotations. Tears, numerous damages, and missing sections. Dimensions of one strip: 171 x 46 cm. Source: Notes by E.A. FAUCONNIER on the Desfossés and early wallpaper makers, DK 1935/1936. This gray-scale design was intended to consist of twenty-four panels, but only five were engraved; they were discovered in a cellar in 1894. (...) It sold very well in England and the United States, No. 3816.