Recueil de Fables Choisies (Cover: Fables Choisies)

Title

en_US Recueil de Fables Choisies (Cover: Fables Choisies)

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine; Florian

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US LeRoy

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:51Z

2021-08

en_US 1937?

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1937

Abstract

en_US This book is squarely in the tradition of canvas-bound large-format fable books printed in Belgium before (and perhaps shortly after?) World War II. Among them this book is a singular exemplar, especially because of the variety of illustration styles in a 62-page book. Left-hand pages present texts and right-hand pages illustrations. Artists include LeRoy, LeRaille (?), Maurice Lemainque, and J. Ea???. Many illustrations are not signed. FC as a brown-tinted triptych on 55 echoes the black-and-white central panel on the first page after the title-page. Perhaps the closest approximation is the long “Fables Choisies de La Fontaine et de Florian” from 1937. Some of the designs here replicate those there but are differently colored, like “The Cobbler and the Financier” on 59, with green color added to what is there only a line drawing. Pages that appeared as monochrome there are now wonderfully colored, like “The Phoenix” (21) and “The Tight Rope Walker” (29). The coloring of duochrome illustrations seems to me often rather garish! The front cover pictures a grandmother reading to two children. No publisher acknowledged.

Identifier

en_US 12672 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138859

Language

en_US fre

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine and Florian See all items with this value