Vintage Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal Everyday Scenes Greeting Cards InvEE

Description

Set of 12 vintage
Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal
blank pochoir and offset greeting cards. Fantastic depth of color. Vivid blues, reds and yellows.
Two cards for each of the following:
La Chasse
La Promenade
La Musique
La Danse
La Peche
L'Equitation
In excellent condition. No envelopes included.
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” and popularized printed images of everyday scenes. Printed on Arches paper, 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. 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.
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