Background:

These colorful prints are based on illustrations by the French artist Guy Arnoux to accompany a series of children's stories authored by Marcelle Fauchier-Delavigne.

The prints were produced by a technique called "pochoir".  Pochoir prints are colored by hand with the help of a stencil to mask out the areas where each color is not required.

In addition to this series, we also feature on the Web site a series of French military uniforms illustrated by Arnoux in the early 1900s.