Jean de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Claire LeSage, editor

Creator

en_US Claire, LeSage See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2018-03-05T17:14:01Z

en_US 2017-08

en_US 1995

Date Available

2018-03-05T17:14:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US Here is an excellent resource! I am so fortunate to be able to return every two or three years to the Librairie de l'Avenue in St. Ouen to find books like this! The cover picture gets it right: Jean de La Fontaine himself peers at us through an Oudry painting of FS, slit open for the author. One of my learnings already from this book is of the excellence of Oudry's oil paintings. One finds Oudry paintings on 122-23, 155, 158, 171, and 173. I had previously limited him to the black-and-white renditions of his four-volume magnum opus. About half of this large-format (about 10" x 12") book is given to La Fontaine as fabulist. Lovely illustrations are there throughout, presumably arrange to relate to the focus of the ten essays making up the "fabulist" portion. I rejoice as much in meeting old friends among the illustrators as seeing new things. Among the new friends are the fabrics and dishware on 166-67; the cards on 168; the screen and the pedestal on 169; and the paintings of Moreau on 193 and 194. Towards the end of the fable section, it is a pleasure to find more recent friends like Gaston Barret, Moss and Collot, and Jean Effel -- and even a Pulmoll blotter. I learned finally that "Les Bambous" was indeed the title of the Creole La Fontaine published in 1846. That work was one source for the La Fontaine in Creole that I catalogued just recently: "Fables de La Fontaine avec adaptations créoles et sources" by Suzanne Dracius (Desnel, 2006). If this book is based on an exhibit, I sure am sorry to have missed it!

Identifier

en_US 11242 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/117113

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Bibliothèque national de France/Seuil

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Secondary Literature See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole