La Vache Echappe – Dresden, circa 1910

This beautiful example of postcard art was printed in Dresden (Germany) about 1910.

I believe it was published in France, although the postcard does not identify a publisher.

The postcard was not mailed.

The postcard features a remarkable reproduction of a painting by the French painter, Julien Dupres.

Julien Dupres was born in Paris to a family of lace-makers.

When the family shop was forced to close during the occupation of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), Dupres began taking art classes.

He achieved notable success as an artist, and devoted his distinguished career to recreating scenes of life in the French countryside.

This work, La Vache Echappe (the cow escapes), depicts the minor emergency of the cow fleeing across the meadow.

The original painting is collected in Paris.

As plans for Fall travel are again disrupted by pandemic precautions, I find that my sympathies are entirely with the bounding cow running free.

(Note: My IPad does not have the capacity to reproduce accented words. A regrettable limitation. Read “echappee” and “Depres”, as though they were accented appropriately.)