Dragon Con Puppetry Track"Ombres chinoises" was the European take on Chinese #shadowpuppet theatre. In 1770, François Dominique Séraphin began the first permanent shadow theater in Europe at Versailles.
The figure pictured is made of metal and attributed to Séraphin, c. 1790.
1790 METAL ARTICULATED SHADES, FRANÇOIS DOMINIQUE SÉRAPHIN : THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1790 METAL ARTICULATED SHADES FRANÇOIS DOMINIQUE SÉRAPHIN (1747-1800) In 1790 Séraphin introduced moving Articulated Iron ‘Shadows’ during the...