Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre

en_US Collection Jeunesse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US LaFontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Lefebvre, Gabriel

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:10Z

en_US 2005-01

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US I have been in love with Lefebvre's work since his two volumes of La Fontaine's fables done for Casterman in 1986. When I saw this work almost twenty years later, I presumed that it was a reprint in different format of the same illustrations. Now I think that these are new illustrations, and they are delightful! There are fifty-one fables on 141 pages, as the closing AI shows. Each fable gets either a two-page or a four-page spread, with either one or two pages for text and the same for illustration. Text and illustration remain separate. Among the strongest of the illustrations are WL (18); FS (24); CW (40); The Wolves and the Sheep (54 and 55); The Lion in Love (63); FM (71 and 73); The Eagle and the Owl (92); TT (133 and 134); and The Cat and the Two Sparrows (137 and 138). The preoccupation with presenting two eyes for every creature seems to be gone from Lefebvre's art. The new identifying mark is the presence of a kind of colored confetti around an animal that is experiencing something strong, like having been kicked in the head! Lefebvre has a wonderful sense of color. This is a particularly heavy book.

Identifier

en_US 9782804607920

en_US 5409 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80950

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US La Renaissance du Livre

en_US Tournai, Belgium

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Jean 2003 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