L'Hirondelle et les petits Oyseaux - Engraving after Oudry, La Fontaine
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Original 18th-century copper engraving with La Fontaine's fable VIII, "The Swallow and the Little Birds": the husbandman sowing hemp while the birds, perched in the bare tree, ignore the swallow's warning. Below, "J. B. Oudry inv." and "Gravé à l'eau forte par C. Cochin, terminé par R. Gaillard".
Original 18th-century copper engraving with La Fontaine's fable VIII, "The Swallow and the Little Birds": the husbandman sowing hemp while the birds, perched in the bare tree, ignore the swallow's warning. Below, "J. B. Oudry inv." and "Gravé à l'eau forte par C. Cochin, terminé par R. Gaillard".
It belongs to the monumental edition of La Fontaine's Fables choisies illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and published in Paris by Desaint & Saillant between 1755 and 1759, the most ambitious French illustrated book of the 18th century.
Medium: Etching finished with the burin
Artist / after: Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)
Engraver / lithographer: Charles-Nicolas Cochin, finished by René Gaillard
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 a split in the lower white margin and the edges of the sheet worn; the plate mark and the image complete.
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Original 18th-century copper engraving with La Fontaine's fable VIII, "The Swallow and the Little Birds": the husbandman sowing hemp while the birds, perched in the bare tree, ignore the swallow's warning. Below, "J. B. Oudry inv." and "Gravé à l'eau forte par C. Cochin, terminé par R. Gaillard".