Histoire des Quatre Fils Aymon: Très Nobles et Très Vaillans Chevaliers
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Histoire des Quatre Fils Aymon: Très Nobles et Très Vaillans Chevaliers
Artist
Eugène Samuel Grasset
French, 1841-1917
Publisher
H. Launette, éditeur, Paris, 1883
Printer
Charles Gillot, Paris
Binder
S. David, [s.l.]
Author
Renaut de Montauban
12th century
Date1883
Dimensionsbook: 11 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (282 x 232mm)
page: 11 x 8 5/8 in. (280 x 219mm)
page: 11 x 8 5/8 in. (280 x 219mm)
MediumReproductions: color relief etchings from designs by Grasset
Text: letterpress
Paper: China laid paper
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number
1986.29
Not on View
Collections
Published Referencescf. Ray, Gordon N., The art of the French illustrated book, 1700 to 1914, vol. II, New York, 1982Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Strong Sensations: Impressionism and Symbolist Works on Paper, 1860-1900, April 23-June 20 2010 (no cat.).
- Works on Paper
TMA, Paper Roses: Garden-Inspired Works on Paper. Feb. 21-May 18, 2014.
Label TextThe story is apopular version of the legend of Charlemagne and his barons. Grasset's book, full of lavish and colorful decorations, served as a seminal forerunner of French art nouveau book design. Unlike most books of the period, Grasset devised elaborate pictorial borders which surrounded the pages of type and integrated with the text in an innovative way. Images of the Middle Ages intermix with Celtic and Japanese ornament, showing Grasset's inspiration from the medieval manuscript decorations he had studied.![Adlib 13: American Mime Theater [serial]](/internal/media/dispatcher/30683/thumbnail)
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