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Chloro-Platine WL

2013?   5 card set of photographs presenting WL with animals and a photographed young woman and man.  "Procédé au Chloro-Platine."  "3142" is on the front of each card.  Blue and red coloring.  Printed in France.  Plus more heavily worn duplicates of Cards 1, 3, 4, and 5.  Dated and apparently stamped in 2013.  $40 for the set from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.

Each picture in this set plays out in front of the same photographic background of trees at a riverside.  At the top of each card is a literal artistic picturing of the animal story, from the lamb's drinking to the arrival of the wolf, to a threatening confrontation, to the lamb's answer, and finally to the forceful dragging off of the lamb.  The title serves as a marker between this drawn scene above and the photographic human scene below.  Do I understand correctly that she is washing clothes and that he is a hunter?  In the last scene, is the woman resisting?  This set of photographic postcards is curious for its red and blue coloring.  I suspect that the "Chloro-Platine" process advertised has something to do with that coloration. 

The lamb's drinking

The wolf's arrival

A confrontation

The lamb's answers

The forceful dragging off of the lamb