{"product_id":"vintage-jacques-liozu-nevada-pictorial-map-framed-c-1946-1949","title":"Vintage Jacques Liozu Nevada Pictorial Map, Framed, c. 1946–1949","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA colour pictorial map of Nevada by the French illustrator Jacques Liozu, matted in cream and set in a blue-painted frame with a gilt inner slip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe state is drawn in dusty rose with the ranges hatched across it, and Liozu has filled the space with small working figures rather than symbols. Sheep and cattle across the Black Rock and the Santa Rosa range. A prospector panning at Wells. A miner pushing a silver car at Battle Mountain. A woman with a basket of corn, fruit and potatoes at Carson City. Gold mining and a canvas tent through the Monitor Range, lead and copper smelting at Ely, and the Lehman Caves drawn as a black cavern mouth. A man in a loud checked suit leans on a touring car above Las Vegas, and Boulder Dam is sketched into the Colorado at the bottom corner. At Reno, two figures stand outside a low building with smoke rising, which is as close as a 1940s French guidebook came to drawing a casino.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cartouche in the lower left sets a bearded prospector with his pick and two sacks of ore against a compass rose, holding a ribbon scroll lettered NEVADA over a scale of miles. Liozu signed at the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace names run the length of the state: Reno, Virginia City with the Comstock Lode, Carson City, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Austin, Eureka, Elko, Palisade, Wells, Ely, Pioche, Tonopah, Goldfield, Las Vegas and Searchlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacques Liozu, 1910 to 1974, was a French painter and illustrator best known for pictorial maps. He drew a complete set of small American state maps for \u003cem\u003eLes États-Unis d'Amérique\u003c\/em\u003e, one volume of Doré Ogrizek's \u003cem\u003eLe Monde en Couleurs\u003c\/em\u003e series published by Éditions Odé in Paris, illustrated by Liozu alongside Beuville and Pierre Noël. The state maps are dated 1946 by the trade and a recorded Odé printing of the volume runs to 517 pages. This is that Nevada plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo details inside the drawing confirm the period without reference to any catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dam on the Colorado is lettered \u003cem\u003eBoulder Dam\u003c\/em\u003e. Congress permanently restored the name Hoover Dam in 1947, so the material Liozu worked from predates that or was compiled while Boulder Dam was still ordinary usage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe state he drew is the pre-war mining and ranching Nevada, not the one that came after. Ely still has its smelter stacks, Goldfield and Tonopah still have men working ground, and Las Vegas gets one figure and a car while Reno gets the smoke and the crowd. Within a decade that ordering had reversed completely. The map caught Nevada in the last moment when the north was the story and the south was a note in the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiozu drew all forty-eight states and most of them are pleasant and interchangeable. This one is not, because the subject is a state whose entire mythology is compressed into a single sheet: the Comstock, the silver cars, the prospectors, the ranges, and Reno smoking quietly at the western edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n  \u003ctbody\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eType\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFramed colour pictorial map plate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eArtist\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJacques Liozu, French, 1910–1974\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSource\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLes États-Unis d'Amérique\u003c\/em\u003e, Doré Ogrizek, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde en Couleurs\u003c\/em\u003e, Éditions Odé, Paris\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSignature\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJACQUES LIOZU printed at the lower edge of the map\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ec. 1946–1949\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePresentation\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCream mat in a blue-painted wood frame with a gilt inner slip, glazed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImage\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4 in. wide by 5.5 in. high\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFrame\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e7.5 in. wide by 9.5 in. high\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMap clean and bright with strong colour and no foxing, tears or losses found. Frame with light wear to the painted surface and the gilt slip consistent with age. Ready to hang.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall framed maps are the most useful pictures there are. They fill the awkward spaces that a large picture cannot, a hallway between doors, the wall above a light switch, the gap beside a bookcase, and they hold up to being looked at closely, which is where all the detail in this one lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone with a connection to Nevada it does something a decorative map cannot. It names the towns, it draws what each of them did for a living, and it does it in the hand of a Frenchman who clearly enjoyed the place. Hang it where people will stand close enough to find Pioche and Searchlight, and it will start conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48090953711721,"sku":"VE-1682","price":485.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/IMG_4908.jpg?v=1789877648","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/vintage-jacques-liozu-nevada-pictorial-map-framed-c-1946-1949","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}