Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #1345 of 2200

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Barret, Gaston

Date

2022-11-07T16:12:07Z

2021-12

en_US 1950

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US In 2012 I found the whole five volume work by Barret, including three volumes of Contes, at Librairie S. Thomas in Paris. I am delighted now to add second copies of the two volumes of fables. This copy is #1345 of 2200, whereas that is #1576. A fascinating project someday would be to compare the coloring of our two copies, since Metzner says that the illustrations are hand-colored. I can add at this point in 2200 that two of Barret's illustrations were stars in the collection's exhibit at the Joslyn Museum, including the frontispiece of OF mentioned below. As I wrote of the first copy, these volumes are printed on Vélin de Chiffon des Vosges. The pages are collected in a portfolio. As Metzner comments in Bodemann, the animals are humanized in clothing and posture. Humans are "puppenähnlich." In the frontispiece of OF, the proud about-to-explode female frog is pregnant. That is what she is so proud of! Metzner counts twenty-two illustrations in all in the two volumes. Further illustrations here include OR (12); BC (15) with a tight-rope walker; FC (42), where the fox wears an eye-patch; LM (83), which uses more red with its yellows; FS (94), which wins my prize; "The Wolf and the Fox in Court Before the Monkey" (127) with a pin-striped wolf that is extraordinary; TMCM (138), which features a country-rat with an eye-piece who manages to steal a chicken as he flees; MSA (171), with the miller riding in front of three beautiful young women; "Death and the Woodman" (182), which has the woodman lying on his wood on the ground; WL (217), another favorite, which has the wolf perched on a branch coming out of the water as he prepares to beat the lamb with a long stick; and "The Cat, the Weasel and the Little Rabbit" (224), which puts the scene in the cat's bedroom. FS has a supercilious female stork looking down on the sheepish fox as he leaves the table with its tall vase. The "Justification" is at the beginning of this volume, giving the number of this copy along with the details concerning the levels of the edition of 2200 copies.

Identifier

en_US 468

en_US 12796 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138977

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Aux Éditions Arc-en-Ciel

en_US Paris

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value