page_title: The Frog and the Ox
section_title: Artistic uses
hierarchical_section_title: The Frog and the Ox / Artistic uses
caption_attribution_description: English: John Rae's illustration to Fables in Thyme for Little Folks (New York 1918
context_page_description: The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 376 in the Perry Index.
  The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox, but bursts in the attempt. It has usually been applied to socio-economic relations.
context_section_description: The fable was a favourite in England and was put to popular use on 18th century china by the Fenton pottery and in the 19th century by the Wedgwood pottery. This was on its Aesop series of coloured plates, signed by Emile Lessore in the 1860s. Minton's pottery also used the fable on a series of Aesop tiles a little later. In France a biscuit porcelain figure group illustrating the fable was issued by the Haffreingue porcelain factory at Boulogne between 1857–1859. The ox is modeled lying on the ground and looking down at the frog directly in front.
  Other uses have been the appearance of the fable on stamps during the centenary of La Fontaine's death in 1995. In France it was on one of a strip of six 2,80 franc stamps, each illustrating a different fable; in Albania the fable appears by itself on the 25 leke stamp and as part of the over-all design of the 60 leke commemorative. 
  Among the composers who have set the fable are the following:
  W. Langton Williams (c. 1832-1896) in his Aesop’s Fables, versified & arranged for the piano forte (London, 1890)
  Charles Lecocq, the third piece in his Six Fables de Jean de la Fontaine for voice and piano (1900)
  Mabel Wood Hill in her "Aesop's Fables Interpreted Through Music" (1920)
  Marcelle de Manziarly, the third piece in Trois Fables de La Fontaine (1935) for voice and piano
  Paul Bonneau in 10 Fables de La Fontaine for a cappella duet (1957)
  Marie-Madeleine Chevalier-Duruflé as the first in her 6 Fables de La Fontaine (1960) for a cappella female voices
  Jean Françaix for 4 male voices and piano (1963)
  Edward Hughes, as the third in his ten Songs from Aesop's Fables for children's voices and piano (1965), in a version by Peter Westmore
  Andre Asriel, Der Frosch und der Ochse, the second in his 6 Fabeln nach Aesop for mixed a cappella voices (1972)
  Isabelle Aboulker among the seven in her children's operetta La Fontaine et le Corbeau (1977)
  Claude Ballif, the third of his Chansonettes : 5 Fables de La Fontaine for small mixed choir (Op.72, Nº1 1995)
  Xavier Benguerel i Godó, the sixth piece in his 7 Fabulas de la Fontaine (1995) for orchestra and narration (in both Catalan and Spanish translations)
  Eric Saint-Marc, a setting for women's choir, piano and string quartet (2014)
caption: John Rae's illustration to Fables in Thyme for Little Folks, 1918
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