“Aesop and Xantas.”

Title

“Aesop and Xantas.”

Description

1908 “Aesop and Xantas.” Goupilgravure. Goupil & Cie. Image 6.4” x 4.2”. “Photogravure of the original painting.” $6.99 from redbuk on Ebay, Jan., ’01.

Alamy offers a print of this image titled d”His Master Introduces Aesop to the Family Circle.” Aesop here approaches the anti-type of an ideal body, not quite the “human turnip” some lives call him. This is the only time t hat I have seen “Xantas” rather than “Xanthos,” “Xanthus,” or “Xantus.” Goupil was apparently also the publisher of Roberto Fontana’s “Aesop Narrates His Fables ;to the Handmaids of Xanthus,” painted in 1876.

Date

1908

Subject

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