Pl. 34–35, a colour plate in Alfred Normand's L'architecture des nations étrangères. Études sur les principales constructions du parc à l’Exposition Universelle de Paris (1867), published in 1870 in Paris by A. Morel, éditeur-libraire, shows a mullioned stucco and glass window in the Tunisian pavilion at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The round archs are resting on two engaged columns and the spandrels are decorated with tendrils and foliage. The window openings are filled with a perforated stucco lattice of geometric design. The pattern of the two window lattices are different variations of a design constructed around eight-pointed stars. The pieces of coloured glass are yellow, blue, green, and red. The illustration also shows the three-dimensionality of the stucco lattice by depicting depicting the angled stucco perforations by means of shading.
In addition to the frontal view, pl. 34–35 includes a cross-section of the window on the left. Underneath the illustration, a scale shows that one window opening is about 36cm long and about 60cm high.
The caption defines the stucco and glass window as ‘fermeture, fenêtre en plâtre découpée, verres de couleurs’.

The caption to the illustration mentions the name of Alfred Normand. This leads us to the assumption that he was the creator of the original drawing which was reproduced through chromolithography by Walter and the Parisian firm Lemercier & Cie. In his text however, Normand informs the reader that some of the plates depicting the Tunisian pavilion reproduce drawings made by Arabs and sent to Paris (Normand, 1870, p. 11).

It is notable that stucco and glass windows of this typology are a very consistent feature of Tunisian representations at world’s fairs. Already at the first world’s fair, the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, Tunis exhibited a stucco window with an arch resting on engaged columns, with carved spandrels and perforations in the central stucco field forming a geometric pattern around pointed stars (IG_410). The same typology can be found at the International Colonial Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883 (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1277-1883). At the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, the Tunisian pavilion included windows of this typology again, as photographs show (IG_92).
In addition to the window from the Amsterdam Colonial Exhibition preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, several windows of this typology that entered the collection of the Orientalische Museum in the 19th century (now in the MAK Vienna: IG_362, IG_363, IG_364, IG_365, IG_366, IG_367, IG_368) demonstrate the availability of this type of stucco and glass window in 19th-century Europe.

The publication gives no information as to exactly where the mullioned stucco and glass window depicted was positioned in the Palais du Bey. From a photograph of the pavilion’s exterior (IG_452), it seems most likely that the window depicted correspond to the ones in the drums of the domes, because there the windows are mullioned, with round arches and two different geometrical patterns.