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17 January 2020 - 11:00 (CET) -
Salle 10 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Designed by Édouard Muller for Jules Desfossé's wallpaper factory, this trompe l'oeil decoration stages Tasso's Armida in an enchanting Parisian winter garden.
Factory of Jules Desfossé (1816-1890), designed by the painter Édouard Muller (1823-1876), Le Jardin d'Armide (Armida's garden), complete wallpaper decoration, 1854, central panel: 489 x 65 and 489 x 81 cm, side panels: 382 x 133 cm each. Estimate: €8,000/10,000
Factory of Jules Desfossé (1816-1890), designed by the painter Édouard Muller (1823-1876), Le Jardin d'Armide (Armida's garden), complete wallpaper decoration, 1854, central panel: 489 x 65 and 489 x 81 cm, side panels: 382 x 133 cm each. Estimate: €8,000/10,000
Frozen in her sorrowful solitude, Armida reigns over a luxuriant garden: an earthly paradise designed to delight the viewers of this trompe l'oeil wallpaper. Its creator, the painter Édouard Muller, based it on James Pradier's statue Pandora , exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1850, but it actually depicts the heroine of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered . In…
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