Jean de La Fontaine: Fables Vol. III

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Fables Vol. III

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US #1365 of 2850 on Velin de Rives

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US LeMarié, Henry

Date

2016-01-25T20:14:54Z

en_US 2012-06

en_US 1966

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:14:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1966

Abstract

en_US Here is a spectacular addition to the collection! The illustrations here are breathtaking! The illustrations in this volume are: Le Lièvre et la Tortue (3); Le Loup devenu Berger (7); Un Animal dans la lune (14); Le Geai paré des plumes du Paon (23); Le Renard et les Raisins (30); Le Chameau et les Bâtons flottants (39); Le Chartier embourbé (46); L'Ane portant des reliques (55); Les Femmes et le secret (62); Le Bassa et le Marchand (71); Le Rat et l'Eléphant (78); Le Dépositaire infidèle (87); Le Loup et le Chasseur (94); Le Singe et le Chat (103); La Tortue et les deux Canards (110); Le Fermier, le Chien, et le Renard (119); Les deux Chèvres (126); Le Chat, la Belette, et le petit Lapin (135); Les deux Coqs (146); La Matrone d'Ephèse (159); Belphégor (170). My favorites among these include Le Loup devenu Berger (7); what lively action! What a fine blending of animal and human in the running wolf! Les Femmes et le secret (62) has pairs of women all over the scene chatting with each other. The secret is making the rounds! La Tortue et les deux Canards (110) offers a good view of these three but gives us a Breughel-like view of the large world beneath and around. Les deux Coqs (146) again has busy action all over the farmyard, but the predatory bird is already swooping above, waiting to claim the victor in the fight between the two cocks in the center foregroud. I cannot praise these detailed half-page colored illustrations highly enough. They are exquisite! From the bookdealer's description I take this: 209 pages, en feuillets sous chemise rempliée illustrée et emboîtages crème illustrés. The printing was done by l'Imprimerie Daragnès in Paris. Jean Taricco engraved some 2200 pieces of wood necessary for the reproduction of the aquarelles of Henry LeMarié for these three volumes. This volume is accompanied by a reproduced letter from LeMarié to his readers, accompanied with delightful illustrations of a person riding a giraffe and of a lion who has apparently just eaten a human! He admits here that the fables have been a prétexte aimable pour peindre Florence au XVIe siècle. Good condition. Beautifully executed!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 504.1

en_US 8023 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83272

Publisher

en_US Les Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole