Renaude 20 cm

It is a detail connoisseurs always look for: on the knee of the « Coup de Mistral » ©, a patch of flowered fabric. According to legend, Renaude cut it from her own dress and sewed it onto her shepherd's trousers so that he would never forget her. This tender gesture sums up the whole story of the couple, united by a secret marriage and settled in a humble hut in the Crau.

Paul Fouque created Renaude in 1962, ten years after her shepherd. Together, they are regarded as two masterpieces of the santon maker's art and as the emblem of our workshop. Renaude is an original creation of the Fouque collection.

At 20 cm, she is a large piece, to be displayed on her own or facing her shepherd. The dress, the shawl and the face reveal all the finesse of the modeling. Such a piece dries for a long time, sometimes several weeks, before firing at 960 °C and slow cooling in the closed kiln. Our painters then work each motif by hand.

Our large sizes are displayed in our Aix-en-Provence shop-workshop. She is wrapped on her own, with paper and bubble wrap, then wedged in her box; she ships within 2 to 3 business days.