Vintage French School Educational Poster Farm Rossignol Double-Sided 11112625

French school educational poster farm

A double-sided French school educational poster farm diagram published by Rossignol - Cooperation Pedagogique of Montmorillon, Vienne, one of France's most celebrated producers of classroom teaching aids from the postwar decades. One face presents La Bergerie, a crisp cutaway illustration of a sheep barn (bergerie) with every element carefully labeled: the mobile hay rack (ratelier mobile), the mobile trough (mangeoire mobile), separate pens for ewes (logement des brebis), lambs (logement des agneaux) and rams (case a beliers), cemented walls and an impermeable concrete floor. The reverse shows La Porcherie, an equally detailed cross-section of a pig house, labeling the roof, ceiling, running water pipe, piglet protection bars, drainage channel, shaded courtyard and concrete foundations. Both diagrams are rendered in warm ochre, terracotta and sage tones with clean graphic linework.

Rossignol's science tableaux were standard fixtures in French rural-school classrooms from the late 1940s through the 1960s, designed to teach children the practical anatomy of the farm buildings they lived alongside. Today these double-sided charts make graphic and genuinely informative wall pieces - handsome in a farmhouse hallway, a kitchen, a mudroom or a collector's study. The vocabulary labels alone are a pleasing lesson in French agricultural life, and the warm palette sits naturally against stone, plaster or wood paneling.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Light handling wear to the edges and a gentle overall tone to the paper; the printed colours remain vivid and the graphics read clearly across the full sheet.

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

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