Allegory Of La Fontaine's Fables Circa 1780

Description:
Canvas painted on frame
This very particular and unique painting is inspired by Fontaine's fables, we will recognize several fables. As for the architectural follies for example, a unique scene with a dreamlike atmosphere links the fables of La Fontaine into a single world.
Mounted on an old frame from the 18th or the very beginning of the 19th century, this work was probably the decoration of an exceptional themed wood panel, located in a folly, or a factory for example, like the column of the desert of Retz.
Moreover, the rather allegorical work would not be classified as a classic artistic pictorial work. We will also think of the very rich work that Gustave Moreau did to illustrate La Fontaine's fables, first the preparatory watercolors then the engravings that we know.
Few illustrators have so fusionally enriched a literary monument of the magnitude of La Fontaine's fables. Although very different, our painting also creates a "real" view of the fables.

Condition: Restored and relined (30 years?) so in very good condition.

Dimensions:
70 cm x 50 cm.

Ref 3475 / 1.12 kg (box) / 3800
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