Philippe
I do not have the pleasure of knowing Mr Berti.
I will perhaps be able to give more precise information by the end of the week, but at this stage here is what I can say :
Foudraz and his wife came from a valley located in the french department of Savoie (73). Considering the fact that they have children between 1825 and 1835 they are certainly born french under the revolution or the empire. If the tarot sheet is really from 1845 he made it at the end of his life as he deceased before 1853. His wife died between 1853 and 1856. He was not a wealthy man, certainly not very successful in his career : at the same time as he was engraving the tarot sheet in Turin he lost a daughter. She was 11 yo AND she was a worker in her parents' native valley...
The two newspaper adverts dated 1857 & 1864 I've posted earlier cannot concern him.
I will perhaps be able to give more precise information by the end of the week, but at this stage here is what I can say :
Foudraz and his wife came from a valley located in the french department of Savoie (73). Considering the fact that they have children between 1825 and 1835 they are certainly born french under the revolution or the empire. If the tarot sheet is really from 1845 he made it at the end of his life as he deceased before 1853. His wife died between 1853 and 1856. He was not a wealthy man, certainly not very successful in his career : at the same time as he was engraving the tarot sheet in Turin he lost a daughter. She was 11 yo AND she was a worker in her parents' native valley...
The two newspaper adverts dated 1857 & 1864 I've posted earlier cannot concern him.