Les Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées par les Plus Grand Artistes

Title

en_US Les Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées par les Plus Grand Artistes

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US No Author

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:46Z

en_US 2016-05

en_US 2015

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2015

Abstract

en_US This large-format (9' x 11½") paperback presents a lovely variety of illustrators of La Fontaine's fables in vivid color. There is no introduction or commentary. There is a last page of short biographical comments on the sixteen artists. Otherwise there are only pictures and texts. Three are new to me: Thomas Tessier, Emmanuel Fornage, and Hermann Vogel. I have already ordered the works of two of them because of this book! Others represented include: Boutet de Monvel; Pieter Breughel; François Chauveau; Guastave Doré; Jean-Honoré Fragonard; André Hellé; Félix Lorioux; Franz Marc; Gustave Moreau; Jean-Baptiste Oudry; Benjamin Rabier; Auguste Vimar; and the 1894 Artistes de Tokyo gathered by Barboutau. What a lovely book! By the way, the editors may be cheating a little to use Breughel's "The Harvest" to illustrate "The Laborer and His Sons." Was Oudry originally meant to be shown in color?

Identifier

en_US 11050 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107778

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Circonflexe

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole