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Stag and Vine Colored 1906

1906?  Colored postcard of "Le Cerf et la Vigne."  $8 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18. 

A curious feature of this early colored postcard is the presence of a second animal in the scene.  In the fable, it is hunters that discover the stag because he disturbed the vine.  It is perhaps one of the hunters' dogs.  If so, it is quite a large dog.  The stag is also surprisingly here out in the open.  That situation makes it easier for the artist, I suppose, but is not so true to the fable.