Les pastorales de Longus, ou Daphnis et Chloé

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Les pastorales de Longus, ou Daphnis et Chloé

Artist Aristide Maillol (French, 1861-1944)

Publisher Les frères Gonin (with Gustave Édouard Gentil), Paris, 1937

Printer Philippe Gonin, Paris

Author Longus (Greek, Active 2nd-3rd centuries CE)

Date1937

DimensionsBox: H: 8 15/16 in. (227 mm); W: 5 7/8 in. (149 mm); Depth: 2 5/16 in. (58 mm).
Book: H: 8 9/16 in. (217 mm); W: 5 1/2 in. (140 mm); Depth: 1 3/4 in. (45 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 8 1/2 in. (216 mm); W: 5 3/8 in. (137 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 55 woodcuts, incl. 7 block initials; plus an extra suite of the woodcuts (incl. 9 block initials not used in the French text). Text: letterpress (typeface: Caslon). Paper: white laid Montval paper, watermarked with a rendering of Maillol's sculpture La Méditerranée with the names Maillol and Gonin beneath.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.700

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Label TextPuplished by Les Freres Gonin, Paris, 1937. Illustrated with 47 woodcuts and woodcut initials printed in black; suite of woodcuts printed in sanguine.Published Referencescf. Rewald, John, editor, The Woodcuts of Aristide Maillol, New York, 1943, nos. 69--71, 74--75, 77--90, 92--93, 95--96, 98--100, 102--105, 107--111, 113--114, 117--122, 125--127, reprs.

cf. Roeper, Susan, Book Illustrations from Six Centuries in the Library of the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 42, repr.

cf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France; The 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 337

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 106

cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 174.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of illustrated books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 43.