MANUFACTURE JULES DESFOSSÉ probably after MANUFACTURE JACQUE - Lot 26

MANUFACTURE JULES DESFOSSÉ probably after MANUFACTURE JACQUEMART Commerce - Agriculture - Astronomy - The Arts Suite of four strips, bronze-green block printed on a blue brushed ground, depicting four statues à l'Antique. Dimensions of one strip: 126x57cm Source: Notes by E.A. FAUCONNIER on Desfossé and old DK wallpaper 1935/1936 Bibliography: Bernard Jacque, 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 such as the Muses, the Seasons and the Four Ages.... They were treated in cameo to imitate stone, bronze, gilded bronze..." The Psyche décor at Château de Moulignon Isidore Leroy, founder of wallpapers of the same name and the originator of continuous-print wallpaper, bought the Château de Moulignon in Seine-et-Marne around 1860. The decor was installed at his request in the second half of the 19th century, and deposited by Maison André Carlhian around 1960. It is lined on heavy paper and features numerous accidents, holes and tears, as well as wear and rubbing.