Vintage French Anatomy School Poster Rossignol Double-Sided Chart 11112626

French anatomy school poster

A double-sided French anatomy school poster from the Rossignol Tableaux de Sciences series, produced for Cooperation Pedagogique in Montmorillon, Vienne -- a publisher long associated with the illustrated science charts found in French primary and secondary classrooms from the 1950s through the 1970s. One face presents Le Gout et L'Odorat (taste and smell), with detailed diagrams of the tongue, its cross-section, taste papillae and the nasal passages, all labeled in clear French script. Flip it over and you have L'Oeil (the eye), showing the lacrimal apparatus, a cross-section of the globe, the surrounding orbital muscles and the optic nerve.

The graphic style is characteristic of mid-century French scientific illustration: confident hand-drawn linework, a warm palette of deep reds, ochre, pale pink and moss green, and labels set in a crisp schoolroom typeface. Charts like these were standard classroom fixtures across France for decades, and today they translate beautifully as wall art -- equally at home in a home office, a library, a child's room or alongside other botanical and scientific prints in a gallery wall. Numbered No. 19 and No. 20 in the Rossignol series, the two subjects make a natural pair.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Some light toning and minor surface wear are visible, with a small stain area noted on the eye side lower corner; the printed image on both sides remains crisp and legible throughout.

Approx. 35.4 in wide x 29.5 in high (90 x 75 cm).

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