Brother Philippe’s Geese

Artist: Nicolas Lancret
Artwork: Brother Philippe’s Geese
Description: This painting depicts a scene from Jean de La Fontaine’s fable “The Fox and the Stork”. In the fable, a fox invites a stork to dinner and serves the food on a flat plate, which the stork is unable to eat. The stork then invites the fox to dinner and serves the food in a tall vase, which the fox is unable to eat. The moral of the fable is that one should not be too clever or one will be outwitted.
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