Chocolat Poulain Gold Background Cards

Title

Chocolat Poulain Gold Background Cards

Description

1910? Four trade cards advertising Chocolat Poulain. H. 217. Gold background. Children pictured in a painted scene from a La Fontaine fable. €20 in St. Ouen, June, '19. "Miser" for €5 from Simon Rodrigues through Ebay, June, '22.

The scenes look familiar, even though they occupy only about 60% of the front of the card. The rest is "Chocolat Poulain: Goutez & Comparez" along with the title and first 25 words or so of the fable, presented in prose. I continue to struggle with the taste that has a male child acting the role of the dying father entrusting his treasured land to his children, or a female child acting the "old woman" here – elsewhere she is a nurse or mother – threatening to give the child to the wolf. The fable of the "travelers" here is the story of seeming to see a ship from afar that turns out, on closer inspection, to be some floating sticks. The verso repeats the beginning lines from the front, complete with a moral.

Date

1910?

Source

Children pictured in a painted scene from a La Fontaine fable. €20 in St. Ouen, June, '19. "Miser" for €5 from Simon Rodrigues through Ebay, June, '22.

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