Glossary
Claude Burdel
A Strasbourg card maker of the 18th century, author of a tarot belonging to the Tarot de Marseille tradition and widely studied by card historians.
Claude Burdel was a card maker active in Strasbourg in the 18th century. His tarot, engraved around 1751, belongs to the iconographic family of the Tarot de Marseille.
The Tarot of Claude Burdel presents certain interesting graphic variants compared with the Lyonnais or Marseille models, making it a valuable testimony to the diversity of regional productions.
Historians of tarot often use this deck to study the progressive transformations of iconography and the circulation of models between different European cities.