Vintage French School Poster Farmyard Basse-Cour Educational Chart 11112612

French vintage school poster farmyard

A double-sided French vintage school poster farmyard chart from the well-regarded Rossignol Tableaux de Sciences series, produced for French primary classrooms most likely in the 1950s. One face presents the Basse-Cour -- the farmyard -- with vivid color diagrams of a rabbit hutch (clapier), a chicken coop (poulailler), an incubator (couveuse), and a brooder (eleveuse), each part carefully labeled in French. The reverse carries plate No. 10, an equally detailed illustration of the manure storage area and liquid manure pit (Aire a Fumier, Fosse a Purin), with cross-sections showing construction layers and drainage. Printed on sturdy paper with the publisher's imprint -- Cooperation Pedagogique, Montmorillon, Vienne -- clearly legible at the lower right of each side.

Rossignol school charts were a fixture of French rural education for decades, used to teach agricultural science to children whose families were often still connected to the land. The graphic style is clean and confident: flat blocks of ochre, green, and warm brown against a cream ground, with fine black ruled lines and hand-lettered annotations that give the chart an honest, workmanlike character. Framed simply, it brings a graphic farmhouse sensibility to a kitchen, mudroom, hallway or home office, and appeals equally to collectors of French ephemera and to those who simply love the look of mid-century scientific illustration.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Light toning to the paper ground overall, with minor edge wear along the borders.

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

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