La Belle aux cheveux d'or
A French hand-coloured print from 1790, after Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tale La Belle aux cheveux d'or, probably issued for young readers and sold as a sheet of separate scenes. Four framed vignettes show the tale's episodes in stage-like settings: a crowned figure on a throne, a courtly exchange of gifts, a cloaked prince at a vaulted stone arch, and ladies kneeling before a ruined wall. A designer might take the compact multi-panel layout, the flat saturated colour, and the theatrical framing of each scene.
