The Fox and the Grapes
A fable by Aesop, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Aesop told this fable more than 2,500 years ago, and it gave us the phrase “sour grapes”. Here it is again, every picture a portrait made with Fable after Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s 1724 garden.
A hungry fox slipped into a garden.
Above him hung grapes, ripe and heavy, glowing in the sun.
He leapt as high as he could, and missed.
Again and again, until he had nothing left.
“They were sour anyway,” he said.
And he walked off, with his nose in the air.
It is easy to scorn what you cannot have.
Every picture in this story was made with Fable, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry.