Brand New ‘Les Quatre Saisons’ with immaculate Original Box, Bolduc, Tissue, Embossed Envelope and Hermes Refreshing Tissue

Absolutely stunning scarf with the most incredible colours and detail!

It was created in 1994 by the gifted and self-taught artist, Robert Dallet – our favourite – who has brought us so many popular scarves including the Sichuan, Tanzanie, Jungle Love and many more.

Scarf Condition: 10/10

Hermes writes:

The swallows have come back, the days are getting longer, the countryside is blooming. It’s spring! But summer is already here, like a flight of pink flamingos in the skies of the Camargue. Little by little, azure glows with purple and gold: autumn has arrived. The squirrel stores his nuts, the duck flown in from the north alight on the pond. The woodcock slips away into the dusk. Mists float over the meadows, Winter unfolds its cloak of white, and all is at an end – until the cycle begins again.

Originally from Normandy, Robert Dallet was born in 1923, and, from a very young age, he was passionate about nature and drawing animals. In 1952, he decided to make a career of it, leaving his home region for Paris on a quest for a publisher who would give him a first chance.

However, he had a difficult start. Making the most of his free time, he made frequent visits to the zoos and museums of Europe in order to refine his scientific knowledge. He studied the behaviour and anatomy of every animal, which he observed for hours on end, and drew hundreds of sketches in thick notebooks.

When he was offered his first few contracts, he also drew cartoons for various magazines. During this period, he created numerous books for children with the publishing house Lito in Paris.

He also worked for different nature magazines, and in 1960 he met Robert Wolff, better known by his nickname “Roby”, who was director of the journal ‘La vie des Bêtes’ in the 1960s. They would go on to collaborate for the next 16 years.

From 1966, combined with Roby’s texts, he illustrated a series of five volumes on the world’s fauna each year: Faune d’Afrique, Faune du Nouveau Monde, Faune d’Europe, Faune d’Asie and Faune d’Australie, all of which were published by Lito. Some had prefaces written by Professor Jean Dorst, a famous ornithologist who was director of the Museum of Natural History in Paris from 1975 to 1985, and one was prefaced by the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1969 M. Dallet won the Academy Grammont prize.