Fables choisies (volumes 3 and 4)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (written by Jean de la Fontaine (French, 1621–1695); engravings by Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (French, 1698–1771), Pierre…)
1756–59
- Medium
- Bound book of letterpress text with etched and engraved illustrations and woodcut vignettes and culs de lampe in black on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Book
- Dimensions
- Book, closed: 49 × 35 × 7 cm (19 5/16 × 13 13/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Book, open: 49 × 74.5 × 6.5 cm (19 5/16 × 29 3/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
