Georges Dayez - Rue de Haute Pave and Notre Dame

The colors in this litho are probably hand painted and it is hand signed by Barday.In fact, the person signing their name Barday was none other than Georges Dayez, son of the publisher Jules Dayez who chose the name of the card publisher as his pseudonym.
Among the authors who worked for Barday, there are famous names such as Jylbert, Naudy, Jean Paris… alongside less well-known illustrators, including a certain Barday… This Barday is famous for his postcards of cities and monuments with very detailed, beautiful drawings.
Born in 1907, the young Georges Dayez was 18 years old when his father and Maurice Barré published the first postcards from the Barday house. From a very young age, he was destined to become a painter and acquired printing techniques from his father, as well as artistic education at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière, the Académie Julian and the evening drawing classes of the City of Paris. A great traveller, Georges Dayez travelled the length and breadth of France, drawing beautiful representations of monuments and towns which were subsequently used in postcards. Later in his career, Georges Dayez moved on to a more abstract art form for which he be came famous. He died in 1991. Barday is the contraction of BARré and DAYez, pseudonym created by Jules Dayez's son, Georges Dayez to illustrate numerous architectures, monuments and tourist sites in France and abroad.