Manon voici le soleil" hand-colored romantic postcard – Vintage Wall Art
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Manon voici le soleil" hand-colored romantic postcard comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Manon voici le soleil" hand-colored romantic postcard
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The title names a woman, Manon, and its phrase "Voici le soleil" ("Here is the sun") casts the sender's affection as a bright break in a gray day, a common flourish in French sentimental cards. Hand-coloring turned mass-printed postcards into something closer to individual paintings, and cards like this were popular across Europe in the early 1900s, when the picture postcard was a quick, inexpensive way to send romantic greetings. Cupid was a stock figure for love messages of the period, and here he helps tie the card to the Valentine's Day tradition. The mix of printed design and hand-applied color is worth a close look, since it shows how ordinary people expressed courtship.
| Original scan | 600 × 938 px |
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| Reference | Img86 |
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