Item
Colored fable card advertising "Collection Biscottes Clément"
- Title
- Colored fable card advertising "Collection Biscottes Clément"
- Description
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1960? Colored fable card advertising "Collection Biscottes Clément" and presenting "The Coach and the Fly" by Jean Mercier.
I recognized this image immediately. It was done by Jean Mercier and appeared on menus for Compagnie General Transatlantique. In fact, that menu appeared in the Joslyn Museum exhibit of this collection in 2018. Its most unusual feature is the oversized fly apparently sitting on the paper. The fly is so insignificant, despite his own ideas of his accomplishment, that he does not appear otherwise in the image. One is tempted to whisk him away in order to look at the picture! The printer's name ends in something like "ugges" in Paris and Nantes. In an earlier existence this card lost that bit of its printer's name. The title and text of the fable make up the verso of the card. - Date
- 1960?
- Source
- $3.36 from Jeannick Brisson, Baignes Sainte Radegonde, France, through Ebay, May, '20.
- Subject
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- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection
