Materials related to Babar's Cousin include the preliminary design and layout for the book in pencil, pen, and watercolor black line drawings watercolor drawings over black line proofs and color studies. The collection includes the dummy with cover, many of the original illustrations, and the text for the original edition of Histoire de Babar in addition to Jean de Brunhoff's notes on color for his illustrations pencil and watercolor studies a sketchbook of watercolor, pen, and pencil drawings and two different illustrations for the cover. Since then Laurent de Brunhoff has produced over thirty books about Babar and his family and friends.
He published Babar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur (English edition, 1948) at the age of twenty-one. Since his father died before completing the paintings for Babar and Father Christmas (English edition, 1940), Laurent finished the paintings for a few pages of this book and designed the cover. The series lapsed until his elder son, Laurent, who was an abstract painter, took up the story. Over the next years, de Brunhoff wrote six more Babar books until his untimely death in 1937. Her husband, Jean de Brunhoff, an accomplished painter in the impressionist tradition, expanded, illustrated, and published the tale in 1931 as The Story of Babar. Babar's Cousin was the first book written and illustrated entirely by Jean's son, Laurent.īabar began as a bedtime story invented by Cecile de Brunhoff for her sons Laurent and Mathieu. This story of a baby elephant, cruelly orphaned, who has adventures in civilization and eventually returns to the jungle to become king of all the elephants, was Jean de Brunhoff's first book. The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired the manuscript and illustrations of The Story of Babar the Little Elephant (originally published in French as Histoire de Babar le petit elephant, 1931) by Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937) and the illustrations for Babar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur (published as Babar et Ce Coquin d'Arthur, 1946) by Laurent de Brunhoff (b.
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