Abstract The human representation of this fable shows a fascinating way of taking the story. As I walk through these photographic human representations of animal stories, I have the sense that the "director" and the audience both know their animal fables so well that the director is at pains to find something new and creative in the human representation. La Fontaine tells us that most people in high places are no more than theater masks that impress asses. The fox by contrast examines them slowly and...

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The paper color and the artist signature are the same in this card as in "Le Corbeau et le Renard," but the formatting of the title is different. Are we dealing with one series or two, or perhaps with no series but simply occasional single postcards? The color work is exquisite on this card! It makes me think that we have others in this style, but I cannot find them!

Abstract The approach of these cards is uniform and, to me, unsatisfying. The children seem presented to remind one of the fable situation, not to play it out in their own world. Perhaps the foxy boy has talked the dreamy girl on a limb of a tree out of her cheese or bread; this card may come the closest to playing out the fable in the world of these children. How, however, are the boy and girl at the stream wolf and lamb? Is the girl with the potted plant teaching the boy with the shovel to love...

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The narrative here deviates from La Fontaine, just as the title is reversed. Here the ant provides all that the grasshopper needs, but admonishes her to start working. I have not been able to find the sense of "Vous avez faites maigre chère."

Abstract The cards are postmarked in 1906. The approach to the story known perhaps best through LaFontaine's fable is slightly different, especially as it involves a dog. 1. This Perrette is thinking as she goes about her dear old father. 2. She stops in the woods to put down the heavy pot. 3. It even seems a good idea to take a nap in the heat; she can catch up afterward. 4. Perrette dreams of the profits and their purchases, including clothes and jewels. 5. She wakes to find she has been...

Abstract Compare this set with Croissant's similar work on both MM and TH. Here, as in TH, children carry the roles. I believe that the set includes only five cards because the lines of the verse fable are all here, in perfect order. Notice the unusual way of placing the title on the first card: one part on the snow-covered roof over the doorway and the other on the door itself. The gestures and poses of the cicada are revealing, from making music, to asking with an open hand to begging with...