Vintage French Military Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal Pochoir Blank Cards InvU

Description

Set of 8 vintage
Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal
blank pochoir greeting cards. Fantastic depth of color. Vivid blues, reds and yellows.
(2) Armee Pontificale cards
(2) Cantinieres de Curassiers, Spahis, Guides and Dragons cards
(2) Carabiniers 2nd Empire cards
(2) Hussards 2nd Empire cards
In excellent condition. No envelopes included. On Arches paper. Blank inside.
The Golden Griffin Gallery operated in New York City from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the 1950s, the Gallery formed a partnership with the Pellerin, becoming the sole distributor for Pellerin Imagerie in North America.
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 near town 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.
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