Vintage French Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal Assorted Locale Blank Cards InvL

Description

Set of 12 vintage
Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal
blank greeting cards.
(2) Jardin du Palais-Royal
cards
(2) Eglise St. Sulpice cards
(2) La Mare d'Auteuil au Bois de Boulogne cards
(2) Palais du Luxembourg cards
(2) Jardin des Tuileries cards
(2) Palais de Justice et la Seine cards
In 1796, Jean Charles Pellerin set up the “Imagerie d’Epinal” and popularized printed images of everyday scenes. In 1810, Imagerie d’Epinal make woodcuts of Napoleon by Francois Georgin, a renowned engraver of that time. These were printed on Arches paper, from the town of Arches (which was a town near to Epinal). In 1880, Imagerie began to print flyers for businesses and political parties, alphabet literature and other educational materials, riddles, illustrated songs, paper cutouts and plates of soldiers. These pochoir (hand-painted, using templates) woodcuts of military subjects, Napoleonic history, storybook characters and other folk themes were widely distributed throughout the 19th century.
Provenance: The Golden Griffin Gallery operated in New York City from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the 1950s, the Gallery formed a partnership with Pellerin Imagerie, becoming the sole distributor for Pellerin Imagerie in North America.
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