Vintage French Anatomy School Poster Double-Sided Rossignol Sympathique 1111265

French anatomy school poster Rossignol

A double-sided French anatomy school poster Rossignol, numbered 17 and 18 in the publisher's series, printed in France by Editions Rossignol of Montmorillon (Vienne) -- a house long synonymous with the illustrated science charts that hung in French classrooms from the postwar decades through the 1970s. One face presents Le Systeme Sympathique (the sympathetic nervous system), with a full-torso diagram mapping the cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral ganglia alongside schemas of the reflex arc and the voluntary act. The reverse face covers La Peau et le Toucher (skin and the sense of touch), with a richly detailed cross-section of the epidermis and dermis, plus close-ups of the Pacini, Meissner and Krause corpuscles.

The color palette -- soft rose for the body outline, steel blue and olive green for nerve tissue, deep red for muscle -- gives the poster a graphic warmth that reads easily as wall art. The anatomical diagrams are precise and cleanly lettered in French, making each face an independent composition. Framed, either side holds its own above a desk, in a studio or in a library; displayed together on a double-sided clip hanger, they become a small classroom installation in the best sense. The Rossignol name printed at the lower left corner is clearly legible.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Light overall toning to the paper ground and some minor surface wear at the edges, as expected from a poster that traveled through decades of classroom use.

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

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