Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Natacha

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:48Z

en_US 1997-05

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US A large format book with strong watercolors for each of 44 fables. The artist seems to sign many illustrations Molenes 94. Each fable (except four) gets a two-page spread. The four exceptions are Les animaux malades de la peste (60), Le chat, la belette et le petit lapin (76, with a particularly strong depiction of Raminograbis), Le chat et le rat (92), and Les deux pigeons (96). The visual artist in picturing Le cochet, le chat et le souriceau (56) surprisingly interprets le cochet as a stagecoach instead of a chicken! Was this creativity planned? Some good images include the pedant (L'enfant et le maître d'école, 20); FK's first, insulted king (30); the sniffing bear in TB (54); the savetier clutching his money (80); and the monologuing rat about to learn something about size from the cat whom the elephant has been carrying (88). The artist takes an unsual perspective in Le laboureur et ses enfants (50) and also includes a daughter besides. Sometimes the two pages are well integrated with each other, as when they present summer and winter in GA (6). It is surprising that so many selections select the same basic set of La Fontaine fables.

Identifier

en_US 9782910818029

en_US 2683 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78218

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Place Furstemberg, éditeurs

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Ps 1995 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