Fables de La Fontaine, Album No. 1

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Album No. 1

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

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

Date

2022-11-07T16:12:41Z

2021-12

en_US 1935?

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:41Z

Date Issued

en_US 1935

Abstract

en_US This booklet represents one of those great moments in collecting. Nineteen years ago I found Album No. 2 of the fables of La Fontaine by Imageries Réunies de Jarville-Nancy, which I take to have been a major competitor of Pelerin of Épinal. I wrote at the end of my comment "Of course the 'Album No. 2' marking makes me want to find Album No. 1!" Now here is Album No. 1! It is well worn, but its pictures still have brilliant color. Like its partner, it has fifteen fables, each with the left-hand page devoted to La Fontaine's text and the right-hand page to a brightly colored illustration with a four-line frame. As I wrote then, the illustrations are somewhere between André Hellé and Pellerin: not as simple in conception or line as the former, not as elegant as the latter. The black-and-white title-page illustration, signed "A. Gaillard," is identical in the two booklets. Among the best of the illustrations is that wisely chosen for the cover. Perrette looks off with her hands in her pockets. Nicely matching her is the man in the next illustration just bitten by the ant who had been saved by the dove. Nicely exaggerated is the illustration for the frogs suffering from too much sun. Hooray!

Identifier

en_US 13055 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/139231

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Imageries Réunies de Jarville-Nancy

en_US Jarville-Nancy

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value