Jean Gaudais
I stumbled about the name seeing a deck in British library ...
Description
Incomplete pack with 51 of 52 astrological playing-cards for cartomancy, plus 2 extra cards
Hand-coloured lithograph
Backs printed with a pattern of winged insects in blue
Circa 1820
Producer name
Published by: J Gaudais biography
School: style French
Date: 1820 (circa)
Production place:
Published in: Paris(Europe,France,Ile-de-France (département),Paris)
The gentleman on one of the extra cards is shown with a tablet bearing "Paris J. Gaudais".
Curator's comments: Each card has at the top a horoscope with a miniature playing-card on the left and a letter of the alphabet on the right, in the centre a mythological or fanciful subject, and at the bottom various groups and devices. On the two extra cards are figures of the fortune-tellers, one a lady, the other a gentleman in fancy dress.
I thought, that 1820 is too early for this. I looked the name up:
The name is missing in DDD. But at Aeclectic it's well known. It's said, that the deck is from 1860.
http://www.spielkartenonline-shop.de/de ... 14006.html
... has the deck (or another ?) for 895 Euro, it's called Grand Jeu Mademoiselle Lenormand
(Grand Jeu de Société et Pratiques Secrètes de Mlle Lenormand)
According WWPCM Gaubais made also a Tarot in the order of the Besancon Tarot (with Juno and Jupiter):
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05377/d05377.htm
card 2
card 3
card 4
card 5
card 19
... possibly this ...
http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/ ... ncien.html
Likely somebody made a reproduction in the last 20 years. Yes, indeed, Fournier made it ...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/J-GAUDAIS-TAROT ... 1720160187
