$30
Antique Pellerin French battle print "Bataille et Passage du Pont de Lodi"; titled to top, and marked to to bottom right corner "Fabrique de Pellerin, Imprimeur-Libraire, à Epinal", with a description of the battle written in French to the bottom middle; measures approximately 17" x 24-1/4" with rustic wooden frame and has a sight image of approximately 15-1/4" x 22-1/2"; in Good condition with age appropriate wear and toning.Epinal, a town on the Moselle River in the Vosges region of northeast France, was the center of a flourishing print-making industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The earliest image-makers at Epinal produced items such as decorative wallpaper, tarot and playing cards, and paper clock faces. Next came religious imagery, including illustrated Cantiques spirituels (hymns sung to familiar melodies), and images of saints that were affixed to the walls of peasants' houses to safeguard homes and livestock. Epinal, however, reached its ascendant position in the annals of European print history in the person of Jean-Charles Pellerin (1756-1836), a savvy businessman who expanded his fledgling print shop, the Fabrique de Pellerin, into the country's leading manufacturer of printed images. Pellerin, a one-time clockmaker and wine merchant who dabbled in local politics, was particularly astute in identifying and targeting untapped areas of imagery by printing new items, including fairy tales ("Tom Thumb" or "Puss in Boots," for example). Du
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2016-04-23
