FRENCH POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST: BEYOND PROVENCE

Posted on February 17, 2013December 29, 2015 by Susan Manfull

Part Two of Two Parts This is the second of two posts inspired by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts exhibition entitled “The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection,” on view through April 14, 2013. Showcasing around 700 postcards from Mr. Lauder’s massive collection—which he recently gifted to the MFA—it is an immensely interesting and fun exhibition. The first post, last week, entitled “Postcards from France: Provence and the Côte d’Azur,” focused on the postcard craze tha...

POSTCARDS FROM FRANCE: PROVENCE AND THE CÔTE D’AZUR

Posted on February 10, 2013January 8, 2020 by Susan Manfull

Today's Café Gaby lies where rue de Henri Savournin appears to end, on the left.

Part One of Two Parts “Postcards from France” was inspired by the current exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston entitled “The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection,” featuring over 700 miniature pieces of art from his very sizable collection of postcards. Today’s post focuses on postcards of Provence and the Côte d’Azur and what I learned from the curator of this MFA exhibit about the history of postcards. Next week’s post will feature postcards f...