Fables: La Fontaine, Florian

Title

en_US Fables: La Fontaine, Florian

en_US Imagerie Pellerin, Imagerie d'Épinal

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US LaFontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:09Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1910?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910?

Abstract

en_US Twenty posters (15½ x 11½) of wildly varying quality are here stapled together with a canvas spine around the staples. The front cover features a central cross of animals carrying each of the letters of Fables and at the four corners vignettes of dressed animals generally performing human actions. The back cover crowds in five more fables and illustrations, for those who have not had enough yet! Some illustrations inside this book are well conceived and very nicely executed, like the first: Le Lièvre & les Grenouilles. Here the hare has become a soldier, and by the end of the poster, he is ready to execute a pleading frog. In others, like the second (Le Chat & le Renard), the art is primitive. This poster adds pictures of cats and foxes in other scenes beyond the fable and adds a picture and some information on La Fontaine. Some, like Le Chat & un vieux Rat near the end of the book, suffer from overly busy scenes and indistinct printing. Each poster is numbered either between 400 and 455 or between 3007 and 3088. Some have a cartoon-like quality, e.g., Le Chat, la Belette & le petit Lapin (#455). True to the cartoon medium, the story finishes in violence. Among the best realized is the six-cartoon series Le Lion & l'Ane chassant (#3025); here human dress, expression, and gesture come together well. I can make out the signature A. Chauffour on Les deux Mulets (#3056). Enjoy watching BF (#3061) as one bird kicks another's bottom!

Identifier

en_US 3475 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78844

Publisher

en_US Pellerin

en_US Epinal

Subject

en_US La Fontaine, Florian See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole