Category Archives: Book Illustration
The first German translation of Les Contes des fées
A longstanding scholarly consensus holds that German translations of Madame d’Aulnoy’s fairy tales did not appear until the second half of the eighteenth century, starting … Continue reading
February 20, 2022 · 1 Comment
More Madame d’Aulnoy
Six months ago this blog presented the very rare first edition of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s Les Contes des fées, of which a complete set (including engraved … Continue reading
October 17, 2018 · 1 Comment
Les Contes des fées
The term “fairy tale” originated in 1697, when Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne d’Aulnoy, gave the title Les Contes des fées to her first … Continue reading
April 10, 2018 · 3 Comments
In effigiem Caroli Patin
Claude Lefebvre (1632-1675) was his generation’s leading portrait painter, perhaps best known today for the portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert that he presented as his reception … Continue reading
February 9, 2017 · Leave a Comment