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€ 4.000 - 6.000
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At auction on Tuesday 24 June 2025 at 15:30
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Paris, Desaint, 1755. In folio. Engraved frontispiece and portrait of J. Baptiste Oudry to the first volume, 275 plates outside the text, woodcut endpapers. Contemporary spotted leather binding, three-line gilt frame on the covers, title within a red leather insert on the 6-black spine, minor defects.
Famous edition of the Fables de la Fontaine , one of the masterpieces of Rococo illustration and one of the most famous illustrated works of all time.
Famous edition of the Fables de la Fontaine , one of the masterpieces of Rococo illustration and one of the most famous illustrated works of all time.
The four volumes contain, in addition to the allegorical frontispiece and the portrait of the illustrator, 275 extraordinary copperplates engraved by the best engravers of the time based on drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), painter, engraver, porcelain designer and tapestry cartoonist, and from 1722 official painter of the “royal hunts” of Louis XV (“Peintre du Roy”). The panels were carved by Aubert, Aveline, Baquoy, Beauvais, Beauvarlet, Cars, Chedel, Chenu, Chevillet, Cochin, Cousinet (Elisabeth), Dupuis, Duret, de Fehrt, Fessard, Flipart, Floding, Gaillard, Gallimard, Lebas, Legrand, Lemire, Lempereur, Marvie, Menil, Moitte, Ouvrier, Pasquier, Pelletier, Pitre-Martenasie, Poletnich, Prévost, Radigues, Riland, Rode, Salvador, Sornique, Surugue, Tardieu, and Teucher. The realism with which the animals are portrayed, the beauty of the landscapes that form the background, the liveliness of the scenes, the fineness of the details are enchanting.
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