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Title
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Huile des Chartreux
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Description
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1920? Colored postcard advertising L'Huile de Table des Chartreux through a parody of GA. €15 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23.
This card challenged this cataloguer because it is both a postcard and an advertisement, a clever advertisement at that! I came down for postcard. The ant asks, as always, what the grasshopper was doing all summer. The answer? "I was eating all sorts of things with L'Huile de Table des Chartreux." The ant's response here: "You were eating? Fine. Now fast." She is hanging onto her bottle of the oil! The artistry is well done, and the color lovely. It looks to me as though there may have been a series of Chartreux advertisements presenting a "fable de la Fontaine accommodée à L'Huile de Table des Chartreux." I would love to find more of them!
1920? Postcard presenting FS. "Fable de la Fontaine accommodée a l'Huile de Table des Chartreux." Artist Raoul Vion. €10 at Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.
This very colorful card seems to be roughly in the style of Benjamin Rabier. The colors help to draw attention to the lovely gold of the bottled oil. The advertisement substitutes bottles for the tall vases of the fable. In a small victory for modern technology, I was able to go out and find a Raoul Vion poster on the web. The date of the poster exactly matched the date I had guessed for this postcard! The back, fully filled out in a difficult hand, adds "Inutile de vous dire qu'il n'est pas de bonne cuisine sans Huile de Table des Chartreux."
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Date
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1920?
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Source
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Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05. Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23.
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Subject
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Huile des Chartreux
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The Grasshopper and the Ant
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The Fox and the Stork