Jules Desfossé

Exhibited by Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz

Material Vintage Wallpaper

Dimensions 3.90 x 3.41 x 1.38 m (each panel)

Place of Creation Paris

Status Vetted

About the Work

Le Jardin d’Armide is considered the finest and most important wallpaper décor of the Second Empire. Created and wood-block printed by Jules Desfossé and designed by Edouard Muller, known as the Painter of Roses. Presented at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855, it was awarded the Gold Medal.

Le Jardin d’Armide was printed only once in a limited edition, because of its high cost and complexity of execution (over 3000 wood-blocks to execute)- thus, its rarity today.

Versions in Public Collections:

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Institution, New York

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Deutschen Tapetenmuseum, Kassel, Germany

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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