La Vie et les Fables d'Esope le Phrygien, Suite (of illustrations)

Title

en_US La Vie et les Fables d'Esope le Phrygien, Suite (of illustrations)

Description

en_US #100 of 250

Contributor

en_US Brunel, Roger

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:32Z

2020-07

en_US 1995

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US I took the occasion of cataloguing this "Suite" of all of Brunel's illustrations to review these lovely things and single out a few more of them. There are two additions here to what one finds in the two portfolios. First, there is the promised original of one of the black and white illustrations. In this case it is WL, signed of course by Brunel. It is not clear to me whether this is the sole original actually drawn by him or a copy actually signed by him or a special copy of the illustration that one finds in the second portfolio. In any case, it is an clever view of the situation, with emphasis not on the river but on the vulnerability of the lamb and the size and eagerness of the wolf. There are also two illustrations from Aesop's life not found in the first portfolio. They are good: of Aesop on the slave's selling block and, anachronistically, of Aesop writing pages. Brunel's view of Aesop as ugly, chubby, and misshapen is consistent through various fables, the title-page, and the embossed covers of the portfolios. Further good illustrations include "The Eagle Wounded by a Feather"; "The Weasel and the Rooster"; "The Woodcutter and the Fox"; "The Fox and the Dog"; "The Charcoaler and the Fuller"; CW; "The Old Woman and the Doctor"; "The Hunter and the Woodman"; "The Stomach and the Limbs" from the first volume. And in the second volume: "Snails"; DW; "The Frog and the Rat"; "The Boys and the Butcher"; SS; "The Ass and His Driver"; "The Young Man Fated to Die by a Lion"; "The Young Man Biting His Mother's Ear"; "The Trumpet"; "The Bald Horse-Rider"; and "The Miser Who Lost His Treasure". There is, I gather some sort of joke in labelling the soap used to "wash" the Ethiopian "La Fontaine." This is a picture one could get away with in France in 1995. It is an image that would offend deeply in the USA in 2020.

Identifier

en_US 12436 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138714

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Éditions du Grésivaudan

en_US Seyssinet-Pariset, France

Subject

Aesop See all items with this value