Pellerin
Imagerie d’Epinal rare vintage French toy paper model and construction - size
Petit (small) from Imagerie d’Epinal Pellerin, Epinal, France
This is an
original pochoir (highly refined technique of making fine limited editions of
stencil prints, often called hand coloring, or hand illustration) created by
hand via the Pellerin family in France
Dimensions Grandes (Large) Constructions: 15"x19"
Dimensions Moyennes (Medium) Constructions: 11½"x15½"
Dimensions Petites (Small) Constructions: 9"x
11½"
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.
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. The Estate is now in possession of the residual inventory.
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