Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre

en_US Collection Beaux Livres Littéraires

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US LaFontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Lefebvre, Gabriel

Date

2016-01-25T19:58:46Z

en_US 2009-07

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:58:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US Here is the earlier large paperback book that is behind the smaller hardbound volume of the same title from the same publisher in 2003. That book belonged to the Collection Jeunesse, while this belongs to the Collection Beaux Livres Littéraires. One of its qualities is its large size: almost 9 x 11½. I can now confirm factually what was only an impression earlier. These are new illustrations, different from those Lefebvre used in his two 1986 volumes Jean de La Fontaine Fables. Let me modify and supplement my comments on the 2003 volume. There are fifty-one fables on 191 pages, as the closing AI shows. There are illustrations here -- like the first illustration for OR (34) and the second illustrations for TMCM (19), WL (23),and FS (30) -- that are not included in the 2003 edition. Among the strongest of the illustrations here are WL (20); FS (28); CW (58 and 60); The Wolves and the Sheep (74 and 75); The Lion in Love (86); FM (97 and 99); The Eagle and the Owl (129 and 131); TT (180 and 183); and The Cat and the Two Sparrows (187 and 189). There is a curious set of markings below the picture on 74. The preoccupation with presenting two eyes for every creature seems to be gone from Lefebvre's art. The new identifying mark is the presence of a kind of colored confetti around an animal that is experiencing something strong, like having been kicked in the head! Lefebvre has a wonderful sense of color.

Identifier

en_US 9782804603878

en_US 6712 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82025

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US La Renaissance du Livre

en_US Tournai, Belgium

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Je 2000

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole