Fables de La Fontaine III

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine III

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

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 Lorioux, Félix

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:38Z

en_US 2006-10

en_US 1958

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1958

Abstract

en_US This book offers two fables from Lorioux' larger-format and larger-volume book of the same title by the same publisher in 1949--WL and L'Huitre et le Plaideurs. It adds four others: Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau; Le Coche et la Mouche; Les Poissons et le Cormoran; and Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles. Like its companion volume I, which I have, the book presents six fables, with a single dramatic colored image for each. In three of the new cases he adds a black-and-white image. The lovely title-page illustration repeats the title-page illustration from 1949 and from the companion volume in 1958: a stork reads a La Fontaine book to a lively assortment of listening animals. Like Volume I, this book has a final black-and-white image on the last page: Mother Stork heads home after reading to the assembled animals. In the 1949 book, that final illustration is colored. The front cover shows frogs leaping into the water as the rabbit approaches; the back cover shows a sinister cormorant and his mouthpiece, the crayfish. I find the illustrations here particularly well executed for Le Coche et la Mouche and L'Huitre et le Plaideurs. These images in the later Lorioux, by contrast with his 1921 Hachette edition, show a new sense of texture, derived perhaps from someone like Dufy, and a great sense of play in the little frogs, fish, and birds around the central figures. Now I need to find the II in the series!

Identifier

en_US 6119 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81526

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Marcus

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1958c 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