Jules Gouffe
Salade de Homards -- Mayonaisse de Fillets de Sole
1867

Name: Salade de Homards -- Mayonaisse de Fillets de Sole
Brand: Jules Gouffe
Price: 350 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Jules Gouffe (1807-1877) Le Livre de Cusine Librairie Hachette et Cie Paris, 1867 Chromolithographs At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of the famous Lent. Gouffe surpassed his master to become an icon of culinary splendor. This classical work on French cooking is truly a masterpiece both for its recipes and illustrations. With 25 color images and 165 black and white embedded in the text, there was no mistaking the high standards of preparation. A rather adventurous book, it applied instruction to both the domestic and superior kitchen. It would thus be a guide to both the household cook and the highest ranking chef. Spectacular in both ingredients and composition, it is only fitting to portray the finished dish as a work of art. Appetizer to main course to dessert is shown in the fullest regalia. Approaching a still-life quality, it could be said that many of the dishes look too good to eat! Written in the narrative structure, Gouffe breaks the single paragraph-long recipe into many, each containing great detail as to ingredients. While quantities are listed, they are mostly within the context of the description and not separated into a separate section. This perhaps verbose style of cookbook has had a bit of a renaissance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries where the writer is somewhat directly conversing with his audience. Unparalleled for its beautiful composition of the finished dish, it is to this day unequaled in the matter of practical exactness and painstaking minuteness of detail. Copies may be found in: Harvard University, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA Koninklijke Bibliotheek, DEN HAAG, 2595 BE Netherlands

Creator:

Jules Gouffe (1807 - 1877, French)

Creation Year:

1867

Dimensions:

Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)

Medium:

Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Academic

Period:

Mid-19th Century

Condition:

Very good. Clean, crisp image Bright original color. Some light soiling margins. Framed to museum specifications using archival matting, backing, hinging. Glazed with ultra-violet filtering Plexiglas.

Gallery Location:

Florham Park, NJ

Reference Number:

Seller: 2015 12-16-151stDibs: LU652725302

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