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Jean Claval: "L'Aventure Carto," 1992

Title: Jean Claval: "L'Aventure Carto," 1992
Description: 1992 Jean Claval "L'Aventure Carto: Les Fables de La Fontaine." One title-card and 37 of 40 portrait postcards offering humorous interpretations of La Fontaine's fables. #AC 92001 through AC 920041. $120 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.

This is one of the liveliest sets of illustrations of La Fontaine's fables that I have encountered. Card after card has surprises! The ass who has crossed the river with salt holds onto a bush with a fingered hand in #2. In #9, the angler is wondering about the small fish he has caught just as a huge Jaws-like shark is ready to break the surface just below him! In "Acorn and Pumpkin" (#15), La Fontaine is walking away from and looking back at the bumpkin about to get hit on the nose by a dropping acorn. In OR (#25), for some reason, Marilyn Monroe is letting the breeze attacking the oak and reed blow up her skirt! In FC (#30), the cheese box is a particular brand, "Caprice des Dieux." On the wall of the bedroom of the dying laborer telling his sons that there is a treasure in the family field, there is a calendar from "The Friends of Mona Lisa" for the year 1695. For me, the first of the two most enjoyable scenes is "Fox and Goat" (#16), with a wild array of objects covered underground from previous eras. The other is "Cobbler and Banker" (#32): so much is going on in the village, including perhaps the artist hawking his cards! TB (#23) may be a specific contemporary political satire; the faces of the two human figures are so specifically portrayed. In GGE (#27), is someone about to kill the rich old hen? Enjoy these cards, especially in their enlarged form, occasioned by clicking on a specific card.
Date: 1992
Source: $120 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.
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Item sets: Carlson Fable Collection