Vintage French Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal Pochoir Blank Greeting Cards InvAA

Description

Set of 8 vintage
Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal
pochoir greeting cards. Fantastic depth of color. Vivid blues, reds and yellows.
(2)
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge cards
(3) Le Tambour-Major cards
(1) Cadet Roussel cards
(2) Le Chat Botte cards
In excellent condition. No envelopes included. Blank inside. On Arches paper.
Provenance: From the residual estate inventory of The Golden Griffin Gallery/Arts Inc., operated in New York City, New York from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the 1950s, the Gallery formed a partnership with Pellerin Imagerie, becoming the sole distributor for Pellerin Imagerie in North America.
In 1796, Jean Charles Pellerin set up the “Imagerie d’Epinal” In France. Printed on Arches paper, pochoir (hand painted using templates) woodcuts of military subjects, Napoleonic history, storybook and folk characters, as well as flyers for businesses and political parties, alphabet literature and other educational materials, riddles, illustrated songs, and paper cutouts were widely distributed throughout the 19th century.
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