Fables de La Fontaine: Edition Taille-Douce, Tome 1

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Edition Taille-Douce, Tome 1

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Gouget, Verner

Date

2016-01-25T19:58:57Z

en_US 2008-11

en_US 1834

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:58:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1834

Abstract

en_US Bodemann's descriptions, done by Metzner, are helpful. The 245 half-page illustrations of fables in the two volumes are in part after Oudry, but with different interpretations of the figures. Menschen grob in zeitgenössisch bürgerlicher Kleidung. Notice the unusual women's hairdos! Tiere oft maniriert; meist vor romantischen Naturlandschaften oder schlichtem Interieur im Stil der Zeit. It first appeared in 63 separate installments; the resulting unsystematische Folierung means that page numbers are deceiving. The 246th illustration is the opening half-page illustration of La Fontaine in a cameo between a mother teaching her child and a rustic scene of a dog and three sheep. The copper plate engravings seem monumental, to be sure, but, after Oudry and Bewick, they seem a bit off, a strange combination of high detail and cartoon. Notice the clear quartering of the stag in LS (I 6). Is it one of the capacities of taille-douce to show something like the flow of water, as is clear in WL (I 10)? Among Gouget's best efforts here might be The Child and the Schoolmaster (I 19); La Lice et sa Compagne (II 7); CW (II 18); The Ass and the Little Dog (IV 5); 2P (V 2); The Old Woman and the Two Serving Girls (V 6); The Eagle and the Owl (V 18); and The Young Widow (VI 21). Poorly conceived is, I believe, The Wolf, the Mother, and the Child (IV 16). Numeration of V 17 has been corrected in pencil. There is a T of C at the end.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 279.1

en_US 6742 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82053

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US LeCointe et Pougin; Gouget

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1834b

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole