Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustrées par B. de Monvel

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695, Boutet de Monvel, Louis Maurice, 1850-1913, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) · 1888 · Paris : Plon-Nourrit & Cie, imprimeurs-éditeurs, [1888]. · 38 pictures

A Paris children's edition of La Fontaine's fables, published by Plon-Nourrit in 1888 and illustrated by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel. The pictures are sequences of small hand-coloured scenes with French verse set beneath each group, showing animals and figures in period costume. A designer could take from them the clear, economical storytelling of panel sequences, with simple flat colour and expressive gesture carried by minimal line.

Fables, French · Juvenile literature · Literature

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