Le lion, le signe et les deaux ânes, 1729-1734, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686–1755, 9 5/8 × 7 1/4 in. ( × cm) (image)11 3/4 × 9 11/16 in. ( × cm) (sight)18 7/8 × 16 1/4 × 1 in. ( × × cm) (outer frame), Point of the brush and grey wash and black ink, heightened with white, on blue paper, within a painted mount, France, 18th century, This is an illustration to a Fable written as a poem in the 1600s. The King of Beasts encounters a monkey, cast as the wise counselor. The lion asks the monkey to explain how, as a leader, he can avoid self-aggrandizement

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