Grand-parents sitting on a bench 4 cm

On the village square, in the shade of a plane tree, the elders take their time. Grandpa has nodded off over his newspaper, while Grandma keeps knitting beside him: a scene everyone has seen in Provence, and a reminder that the Nativity scene is also a portrait of a village and its inhabitants, of every generation.

The set includes the two seated santons and their wooden bench. They are proportioned for the 4 cm collection: they go with standing santons of about 4 cm but, seated, they are of course shorter. This scale suits medium-sized Nativity scenes on a sideboard or mantelpiece, where the scene easily fits at the edge of the square.

The figures are shaped in clay in our Aix-en-Provence workshop, from models hand-sculpted by the Fouque family, then slowly dried, fired at 960 °C and painted by hand, dot by dot.

You can see our scenes of daily life in our shop-workshop at 65 cours Gambetta or at our exhibitions. Each piece is individually wrapped in paper and then bubble wrap; ships within 2 to 3 business days.