1852
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, generally known by the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques or J. J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist.
Grandville received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a painter of miniatures. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Paris, and soon afterward published a collection of lithographs entitled Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté. He followed this with Les Plaisirs de tout âge and La Sibylle des salons (1827); but the work which first established his fame was Les Métamorphoses du jour (1828–29), a series of seventy scenes in which individuals with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to play a human comedy. These drawings are remarkable for the extraordinary skill with which human characteristics are represented in animal facial features.
After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe. He also continued to issue various lithographic collections.
Though the designs of Grandville are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen analysis of character and marvelous inventive ingenuity, and his humor is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness.
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Warriors - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Warriors is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but aged. ...
Paper, Lithograph
Le Misocampe - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Le Misocampe is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but ag...
Paper, Engraving
Bonsoir donc, Ami Lecteur - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Bonsoir donc, Ami Lecteur is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Cond...
Paper, Lithograph
The Gathering - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
The Gathering is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions. The...
Paper, Lithograph
The Search - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
The Search is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux", 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but age...
Paper, Lithograph
The Trapped - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
The Trapped is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. ...
Paper, Lithograph
The Joyous Sprites, Romantic Engraving after Gustave Dore
By Gustave Doré
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gustave Dore, After by George C. Finden, French (1832 - 1883) - The Joyous Sprites, Portfolio: Guinevere, Year: 1867, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.25 inches, Size: 16...
Engraving
Rare Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Engraving JJ Grandville, Paris 1875
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Plate number: XLL Title: T’as raison Gauthier, c’est pas ceux qu’habitent les bels hôtels, qu’est les plus heureux. 14.50” W x 11.50” H matted. Image size: 8.5” x 5.50” One of us set of four very RARE different images purchased from the original owner. Other three available on separate 1st Dibs listings. JJ Granville bio: Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (13 September 1803 – 17 March 1847) was a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville, and numerous variations (e. g. Jean-Jacques Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville) throughout his career. Art historians and critics have called him "the first star of French caricature...
Paper
Whimsical Animal Hand Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Original hand colored copper plate engraving. Printed in Paris, circa 1875. Title: LII “Temps de canicule” 14.5/8” W x 11. 1/2”H matted. Image: 8.5” x 5.5” One of a set of 4 different images purchased from the original owner. Other 3 available on separate 1stdibs listings. J. Grandville BIO: Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (13 September 1803 – 17 March 1847) was a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville, and numerous variations (e. g. Jean-Jacques Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville) throughout his career. Art historians and critics have called him "the first star of French caricature...
Paper
Monstrosities of 1824; Plate 7
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Third Edition. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 1818 (published August 1st, 1835) 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (240 x 348 mm), full...
Watercolor, Etching
A Merry Christmas original wood engraving by Thomas Nast 1880
By (After) Thomas Cole
Located in Paonia, CO
Thomas Nast is one of America’s great illustrators and is responsible for creating the image of Santa Claus as we know him today. This is a hand-colored wood engraving from the cover...
Woodcut
Anatomical Studies of Bats from 'The Mammals' Natural History Lithographs, 1836
Located in Langweer, NL
Here is a detailed description of the two bat lithographs: One print presents four different species of bats, meticulously rendered with a focus on their anatomical features. The ba...
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