Quelques fables
A 1927 Paris edition of selected fables by La Fontaine, published by Les Cent Bibliophiles and illustrated by Jules Chadel, a French artist working in the early twentieth century for a limited circle of collectors. The pictures are loose sepia-toned ink and wash drawings with soft, sketchy outlines and little finished detail. A designer might take their economical brushwork and warm monochrome palette as a model for quick, informal figure drawing and atmospheric landscape backgrounds.
