Le Songe d'un Habitant du Mogol & autres fables de la Fontaine

Title

en_US Le Songe d'un Habitant du Mogol & autres fables de la Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Boxed

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bakhsh, Imam

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:02Z

en_US 1999-08

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US This is a delightful large-format book of some 192 pages featuring the fifty-nine miniatures painted by Imam Bakhsh at the court of Lahore from 1837 on. As far as I can understand, these miniatures are now preserved at the Jean de la Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry. They are exquisite! Let me list some of my favorites: The Crow Wishing to Imitate an Eagle (23); MSA (29); FWT (41); The Horse and the Wolf (42); FG (48, an absolute star!); The Stag Seeing Himself in the Water (53); The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox (71); The Rat and the Elephant (81); The Wolf and the Hunter (90); CW (103); The Dream of the Citizen of the Mogul's Land (137); and The Sun and the Frogs (169). The introduction and appendices give some of the history of this remarkable set of artifacts. As the opening Avertissement de l'Éditeur points out, the fables that happen to be illustrated here are in many cases not La Fontaine's most famous. T of C at the back. I consider this a very lucky find!

Identifier

en_US 3454 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78827

Publisher

en_US Réunion des Musées nationaux, Imprimerie nationale

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1989c See all items with this value

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