2 folders with illustrations from Jean de La Fontaine's "Fables choisies".

VINKELES, Reinier; PUNT, Jan; DELFOS, Abraham

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Lot description

18th c

247 etchings, c. 13,2 x 8,4 cm (image), c. 20,0 x 12,9 cm (sheet), laid paper, signed, French text with fable number (cut inside wide platemark but outside image, probably because several illustrations were printed from 1 plate, few with few spots).

Good impressions and condition. Mounted on wove paper at upper edge. In mod. cardboard folders with label "FABLES DE LA FONTAINE".

Large collection of 244 prints illustrating the 245 fables (without 83, 125-150, 205-207; multiple illustrations for some fables) of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695). Mainly by Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816), but also by Jan Punt (1711-1779) and Abraham Delfos (c. 1731-1820), many dated 1758-1781. From "Fables choisies", published in Leiden by Luzac & van Damme. Also 3 portraits of La Fontaine by Vinkeles after Jacobus Buys (1724-1801) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) and by Bernard Picart (1673-1733) after Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743).