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Panoramic wallpaper English garden patinated . 1800-1804
Manufacturer Joseph Dufour
965,00 €
Created and manufactured by the Manufacture Dufour, this panoramic wallpaper dating from the years 1800-1804 is considered the first French panoramic wallpaper. It is also called "Jardins de Bagatelle" (read the "Interesting facts" below). It was designed by Pierre-Antoine Mongin, painter and engraver, specialist in poetic landscapes who then joined the Zuber workshop. The original wallpaper was made on a joined laid paper and block printed in 7 colors on a blue brushed background.
This panoramic wallpaper comes from the Château de la Calade, a 17th century bastide in Aix-en-Provence (France) listed as a Historic Monument. Among the other listed examples is that of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, exhibited in one of its "period rooms", reproducing the living room of a house located in Bath (Maine) and built in 1803.
Collection of the Château de la Calade
Photographic credit : Victoire Le Tarnec
Colors
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Created by Joseph Dufour, the so-named worshop is, along with Zuber and Cie, one of the most exceptional of the 19th century regarding the creation of wallpapers, especially panoramic murals. Ambitious, talented, humanist, and heavily influenced by the French Revolution ideals, Joseph Dufour set up first in Mâcon, then in Paris. At his beginnings, he kept in tune with the style and taste of the time, reproducing drapery patterns on paper. Then, he progressively turned towards literary and exotic themes with the creation of mural panoramics.
Exhibited in Paris in 1806, his first panoramic wallpaper, “Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique”, enjoyed great success, and Joseph Dufour was then considered the most revolutionary creator of the time in the art of decoration. From thereon, associated to his name, his patterns became famous all over the world, especially in Europe and in The United States.
1800-1804
There are many architectural references in this panoramic wallpaper. The statue of Diana placed on a pedestal and located on the left evokes the sculptures of the gardens of Versailles and the Tuileries. The temple with Corinthian columns, to its right, takes up the architecture of the "Temple de l'Amour", built at the Petit Trianon in Versailles for Queen Marie-Antoinette. In the background, the gallery with Ionic arcades and pilasters is reminiscent of the Grand Trianon.
Further to the right, the small Chinese bridge evokes that of the garden of the Château de Bagatelle located in the Bois de Boulogne. Following a bet between the Count of Artois (younger brother of Louis XVI) and Marie-Antoinette, this castle was built in 67 days! This anecdote explains why this panoramic wallpaper is also called "Gardens of Bagatelle".
On the right of the panoramic wallpaper, women dressed in an antique style bathe in a basin in a pool fed by the breasts of Isis. This is an allusion to the Fountain of Regeneration, built on the ruins of the Bastille for the Unity and Indivisibility Day of August 10, 1793, organized by the painter Jacques-Louis David. Elderly people representing the 86 departments came to drink the water flowing from the breasts of the Egyptian goddess, a symbol of national regeneration.
This reference to Egypt is also found in the treatment of the building located to the right of the bathers. It translates the prevailing Egyptomania of the beginning of the 19th century, a direct consequence of Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign and the success of Vivant Denon's book ("Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Egypte") which allowed the dissemination numerous engravings and commentaries on the subject.
Finally, let us note on an artistic level the technical prowess of the representation of the flow of water on a wallpaper.
Our wallpapers are hung in 3 stages: the preparation of the wall, its pasting, and the hanging. The strips are hung edge to edge and from left to right in the order indicated on the assembly plan supplied with the rolls. To find out more, consult our Hanging instructions page.
Non-woven wallpaper 147g/ square meter
Matching edge to edge
Manufacturing time: 20 business days
Free shipping from €300
Made in France
Owing to the manufacturing process, there could be small variations in colors from one production batch to the next. If possible, avoid buying different parts of the same design several weeks apart.
