This illustration is a reproduction of one of the most beautiful French wallpapers made in 1862 by the Manufacture Desfossé. PARADISIO IMAGINARIUM issues reprints and reworked prints of illustrations from the 18th and 19th centuries that are part of the historical treasures preserved by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. Le Brésil" depicts an exotic landscape, a theme very much in vogue in the 19th century, exalting the tropical character of the country through the use of idealised fauna and flora. Red ibises, parrots, peacocks, birds of Paradise, pelicans…whirl round the palm trees...