L'Enfant et le Maître d'École - Engraving after Oudry - La Fontaine
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Original 18th-century copper engraving with La Fontaine's fable XIX, "The Child and the Schoolmaster": the boy drowning as he clings to a branch while the master, on the bank, stops to lecture him. Below, "J. B. Oudry inv." at the left and "P. E. Moitte sculp." at the right.
Original 18th-century copper engraving with La Fontaine's fable XIX, "The Child and the Schoolmaster": the boy drowning as he clings to a branch while the master, on the bank, stops to lecture him. Below, "J. B. Oudry inv." at the left and "P. E. Moitte sculp." at the right.
It belongs to the monumental edition of La Fontaine's Fables choisies illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and published in Paris by Desaint & Saillant, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, between 1755 and 1759: the most ambitious French illustrated book of the 18th century.
Medium: Copper engraving
Artist / after: Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)
Engraver / lithographer: Pierre-Étienne Moitte
Date: 1755-1759
Source: Fables choisies de La Fontaine, Paris, Desaint & Saillant
Dimensions: 9.6 x 15 in (24.5 x 38 cm)
Condition: Fair. Toned paper, with tears and splits at the edges of the sheet and a few small holes in the white margin; the plate mark and the image complete and clean.
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Original 18th-century copper engraving with La Fontaine's fable XIX, "The Child and the Schoolmaster": the boy drowning as he clings to a branch while the master, on the bank, stops to lecture him. Below, "J. B. Oudry inv." at the left and "P. E. Moitte sculp." at the right.