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Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, 1621–1695)
Engraved by: Etienne Fessard (French, 1714–1777)
Engraved by: Pierre Quentin Chedel (French, 1705–1762)
Engraved by: Simon François Ravenet, l'aîné (French, 1706–1774)
After: Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils (French, 1715–1790)
After: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
Author: Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (1636–1711)
Engraved by: Etienne Fessard (French, 1714–1777)
Engraved by: Pierre Quentin Chedel (French, 1705–1762)
Engraved by: Simon François Ravenet, l'aîné (French, 1706–1774)
After: Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils (French, 1715–1790)
After: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
Author: Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (1636–1711)
1745
Place of Publication: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 73 etching and engravings
Dimensions
Overall (each vol.): 16.9 x 10.9 x 1.9 cm (6 5/8 x 4 5/16 x 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1453a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Amsterdam [i.e., Paris]: 1745
Catalogue Raisonné
Cohen-de Ricci 558
Description(Amsterdam [i.e., Paris]: 1745) Octavo, two vols.; [v. 1] 124 leaves, plus frontispiece; [v.2] 140 leaves; modern gilt-stamped blue morocco (Chambolle-Duru).
Allegorical frontispiece; portrait of author in his library; illustrations to La Fontaine's tales.
Re-issue of the 1743 Amsterdam (i.e. Paris) edition with cancel title-pages; in this copy p. [69-72] are also cancels, with new illustrations. [In v. 1, p. 185-[192] are bound before p. [177].] Imprint place given in Mansell 311:389 as [Paris, Barraud et David jeune] Cf. Rochambeau, Bibliographie, II, 522; not in Weller. [--information from Harvard Hollis online catalogue]
The "Dissertation sur La Joconde" (vol. 1, pp. 201-24) is by Boileau Despreaux. The plates are unsigned, but ascribed by Cohen-de Ricci to Fessard, Chedel, and Ravenet, all after drawings by Cochin. The frontispiece in vol. 1 is engraved by Lebas. The new illustrations cited above on pp. 69-72 are copies of large-format engravings published in 1738 by Larmessin after Lancret; they replace three Cochin illustrations.
Note: the Dept. copy of Cohen-de Ricci cites the Sargent Coll. as owning a copy of the 1743 edition, but there is not a card for it and no citation in the shelf list.
Allegorical frontispiece; portrait of author in his library; illustrations to La Fontaine's tales.
Re-issue of the 1743 Amsterdam (i.e. Paris) edition with cancel title-pages; in this copy p. [69-72] are also cancels, with new illustrations. [In v. 1, p. 185-[192] are bound before p. [177].] Imprint place given in Mansell 311:389 as [Paris, Barraud et David jeune] Cf. Rochambeau, Bibliographie, II, 522; not in Weller. [--information from Harvard Hollis online catalogue]
The "Dissertation sur La Joconde" (vol. 1, pp. 201-24) is by Boileau Despreaux. The plates are unsigned, but ascribed by Cohen-de Ricci to Fessard, Chedel, and Ravenet, all after drawings by Cochin. The frontispiece in vol. 1 is engraved by Lebas. The new illustrations cited above on pp. 69-72 are copies of large-format engravings published in 1738 by Larmessin after Lancret; they replace three Cochin illustrations.
Note: the Dept. copy of Cohen-de Ricci cites the Sargent Coll. as owning a copy of the 1743 edition, but there is not a card for it and no citation in the shelf list.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1903 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.