Bilderfreuden : eine holde Gabe für die Jugend ; in 12 fein illum. Darstellungen : un présent favorable pour la jéunesse
Bilderfreuden is a set of twelve hand-coloured German and French picture sheets published in 1832 by Renner & Schuster in Nuremberg as a gift for children. The scenes show bourgeois family life, with children's play, parties, Christmas evening and a birthday, set in interiors and open landscapes. Designers can take from them the rhythm of early nineteenth-century genre composition, a long horizontal frieze format, and the tidy ribbon-garlanded domestic settings with their small, legible groups of figures.
