Jean de LA FONTAINE
Collection of nine handwritten fables illustrated in watercolor, pencil and ink by HENRIOT (1857-1933).
A dust jacket featuring a portrait of La Fontaine drawn in ink in a round vignette, signed HENRIOT and dated 1931.
- The oak and the reed
A dust jacket showing the title and a round vignette and four pages of text illustrated with six vignettes.
- The wolf and the lamb
A dust jacket with the title and a vignette (monogrammed H) and four pages of text illustrated with seven vignettes (the last one signed Henriot at the bottom right).
- The milkmaid and the milk pot
A dust jacket with the title and a vignette and five pages of text illustrated with nine vignettes.
- The two mules
A dust jacket with the title and a vignette and three pages of text illustrated with six vignettes.
- The fox and the stork
A dust jacket with the title and a round vignette and three pages of text with eight vignettes.
- The fox and the grapes
A dust jacket with the title and a round vignette, a false title with vignette and a page of text illustrated with a vignette.
- The cicada and the ant
A dust jacket with the title and a vignette and four pages of text illustrated with six vignettes.
- Le rat des villes et le rat des champs
A dust jacket with the title and a vignette and four pages of text illustrated with eleven vignettes.
- The crow and the fox
A dust jacket with the title and a vignette and three pages of text illustrated with four vignettes (the last one monogrammed H.).
Size of a sheet : 28,2 x 19 cm
Small tears on the fold of the jackets.
Stamp of the HENRIOT sale on the reverse of the sheet.
Provenance:
Artist's studio.
Kept to this day in the artist's family.
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