Vintage French Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal Assorted Holiday Greeting Cards InvA

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Set of 6 vintage Imagerie Pellerin d'Epinal cards.
Three different holiday greeting cards. Each read "Season's Greetings and All Best Wishes."
(2) Dragons Francaise cards (offset printing, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches)
(2) Nostradamus cards (pochoir, on Arches paper, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches)
(2) Zouaves (Nouvelle Tenue) cards (offset printing, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches)
From the Golden Griffin Gallery. 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.
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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