Live auction - Lot 337
21 lithographs from "Fables choisies" by Jean de la Fontaine.
Paris, Engelmann, 1818
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
C. 19,0 x 24,2 cm (image), wove paper, most stone signed and few dated (sl. foxed, some edges or pl. sl. browned, few sm. tears on edges, some sm. losses).
Contains i.a. "Les voleurs et l'arc", "L'oiseleur, l'autour et l'Alouette", "L'ours et l'amateur des jardins", "L'homme entre deux âges et ses deux maîtresses", etc.
Joined: 1. 10 etchings. Late 19th c. 15,5 x 11,5 to 19,0 x 26,5 cm, laid paper, few plate signed. By Schaefels, Dillens, Gérard, Vandekerkhove, Geets, De Baerdemaeker, etc. - 2. 3 Albums du journal des Beaux-Arts. Eaux-fortes inédites. 1873, 1876 and 1878-1879. Etchings by Glibert, Dillens, Van den Bosch, Numans, Van de Kerkhove, Gérard, Van Kuyck, etc. - 3. 2 watercolours/gouaches and 1 hand-coloured lithogr. 12,7 x 18,2 cm, wove paper. Angels playing hide-and-seek in the shoemaker's workshop and an ancient figure.