Alphonse Robert, Women and a Secret Postcard, 1880

Item

Identifier: CFC2022.0059

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1880

Extent

.33 Linear Feet : Portrait postcard "Les Femmes et le Secret." Le Sourire Nr. 226. Les Fables de "La Fontaine." Illustration by A(lphonse) Robert.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Here is a curious card. I can find no others in the series. Alphonse Robert died in 1880. That is why I choose the last year of his life to date this card. The stance and expression of the man here beg, I believe, for interpretation. I have seen only seldom this approach to quoting a text: leaving out whole sections, perhaps to accommodate a long fable to a limited space. This is exceptional color work! Might it make the card much later? This seems to be a thoroughly modern card, in its exact coloring, in its creative arrangement of the figures, and in the man's perhaps cynical (?) attitude!