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LECOMTE-AUBRY, Hyacinthe-Louis-Victor-Jean-Baptiste.
Contes de Perrault.
The first issue of this rare series of contemporary coloured lithographs illustrating Perrault’s Contes. They are the work of one of Girodet’s students. An extremely rare set of 12 superb coloured lithographs by H. Lecomte, with lithographed captions. A beautiful set of contemporary coloured lithographs illustrating one of the greatest texts of French literature.
- Published
- Paris: Delpech, s.d. [c 1830]
- References
- Gumuchian, 'Les livres de l'enfance', 4426; Biographie générale, 30, 233.
- Plates
- 12
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Delpech, s.d. [c 1830]
- Ref
- 1375
[Tales of Perrault.] A beautiful series of contemporary coloured lithographs, wonderfully executed by one of Girodet’s most gifted students to illustrate 'Perrault’s Contes.' Oblong, small folio [362 x 261 mm] in sheets, including one lithographed wrapper and 12 coloured lithographs. Well preserved in a claret-coloured cloth box. FIRST ISSUE OF THIS RARE SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS. "Hyacinthe Aubry-Lecomte is a French drawer and lithographer born in Nice in 1797 to French parents, who died in Paris in May 1858. He came to Paris at the end of the empire and started working in 1816 at the Treasury, where he stayed for nine years; at the same time, he followed Girodet’s studio and took the examination at the Art School. He exhibited for the first time in 1819 and won several medals in 1824 and 1831, and the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1849." (Biographie générale, 30, 233) A BEAUTIFUL SET OF CONTEMPORARY COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING ONE OF THE GREATEST TEXTS OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Coloured plates in order: 1. La Barbe-Bleue. Cela ne Sert de rien, dit la Barbe-Bleue, il faut mourir. 2. Le Chat botte. Bonnes gens qui moissonnez, si vous ne dites que tous ces blés appartement a... 3. Le petit Chaperon rouge. Tire la chevillette, la bobinette cherra. 4. Finette. Prince, si vous approchez de moi, je vous fendrai la tete avec ce marteau. 5. Cendrillon. Tu as raison, on rirait si on voyait un Cucendron aller au bal. 6. Griselidis. Cessez de vous hater, trop aimable bergers, la noce ou vous allez... 7. Les Souhaits Ridicules. Un jour que, dans le bois, il se mit a se plaindre A lui, la foudre en main... 8. Les Fees. Oui da, ma bonne mère, dit cette bele fille. 9. Peau-d'Une. l'effroyable peau d'une , qui faisait sa coiffure, et son habillement, l'épouvanta honteuse de cet ajustement... 10. Riquet a la Houppe. Je ne comprends pas, Madame, comment une personne aussi belle que vous... 11. Le Petit Poucet. 12. La Belle au Bois dormant. Elle n'eut pas plutôt pris le fuseau, qu'elle s'en percha la main et tomba évanouie.
