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Nouvelles Galeries Oudry

1935? Complete set of 100 numbered cards presenting Les Fables de La Fontaine as engraved by J. B. Oudry.  "Edité par les Nouvelles Galeries."  ?300 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.  Four cards earlier for $2.50 from Sally Carver, Warwick, RI, through eBay, Jan., '14.  And 32 cards for $128 from Livres Anciens and Books, La Madeleine, France, through Ebay, April, '21.  A second complete set minus card #92 for $70 from Thomas Famulary, Rumson, NJ, through Ebay, March, '22.

These are high class renditions of Oudry's work on very fine cards slightly larger than 4½" by 6 ½".  The printing of the image indents that portion of each card.  The verso has title, text, "La Fontaine," and "Edition des Nouvelles Galeries,"  Nouvelles Galeries seems to have existed in Angers, Saint-Denis, and Besançon.  Cards #46 through #50 of the first set and cards #1 through #6 of the second set drop the line at the bottom of the image side: "Edité par les Nouvelles Galeries."  One card in the first set (#87) has that phrase and a street address on Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle.

 

1.  Two Friends

2. Cat, Weasel, & Rabbit

3. TMCM

4. LM

5. Coach & Fly

6. Women & a Secret

7. FC

8. OR

9. Acorn & Pumpkin

10. MSA

11. WL

12. Oyster & Litigants

13. Lion Grown Old

14. WC

15. FS

16. Child & Schoolmaster

17. Lion & Gnat

18. FG

19. Death & Woodman

20. Cobbler & Financier

21. Wolf and Fox

22. The Doctors

23. Education

24. Joker and Fish

25. Jupiter and the Passenger

26. Forest and Woodcutter

27. The Monkey

28. Sick Stag

29. BC

30. FG

31. Socrates' Statement

32. Spider and Swallow

33. Wolf & Fox with Judge Monkey

34. The Young Widow

35. Wolf & Shepherds

36. Animals Sick in Plague

37. Nothing Too Much

38. Crow Imitating Eagle

39. Wolf, Mother, & Child

40. AD

41. Miser Who Lost His Treasure

42. TB

43. Ass and Lapdog

44. Old Man and Ass

45. Little Fish and Angler

46. Fish & Flautist Shepherd

47. Banker & Monkey

48. BF

49. FWT

50. GGE

51. Rat and Elephant

52. Mountain Giving Birth

53. League of Rats

54. Ass & Several Masters

55. Stag and Vine

56. CJ

57. Lion and Hunter

58. Lion Going to War

59. Fool and Sage

60. Oracle & Impious Man

61. Bitch & Family

62. Lady Luck & Child

63. Man & Two Fiancees

64. 2P

65. Fortune-Tellers

66. CW

67. The Master's Eye

68. The Ill-Tempered Wife

69. Mule Proud of His Genealogy

70. Burier & Comrade

71. Peacock Complaining to Juno

72. Fowler, Hawk, & Lark

73. Torrent & River

74. Jupiter & Sharecropper

75. DLS

76. GA

77. Old Woman & Two Servants

78. The Advantage of Science

79. Man & Wooden Idol

80. Horse & Stag

81. Shepherd & Sea

82. Worker & His Children

83. The Charlatan

84. Cat and Two Sparrows

85. Hare's Ears

86. The Candle

87. Fox, Wolf, and Horse

88. Robbers & Ass

89. Ass Carrying Relics

90. Love and Folly

91. The Shepherd & His Flock

92. TT

93. TH

94. Two Goats

95. MM

96. Countryman & Snake

97. Wolf & Hunter

98. Old Man & His Children

99. Carter Stuck in Mud

100. Horse and Ass