1847
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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Eglantine - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow grows." T. Delord. Les Fleurs animées...
Lithograph
Belle-de-Nuit - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow gr...
Lithograph
Verveine - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.II - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow gr...
Lithograph
Traite des Fleurs - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.II - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow gr...
Lithograph
Erratum - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.II - Lithograph by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "This is a chapter which we dread to begin. We do not like errata. It is easy to commence, but not so easy to lea...
Lithograph
Tubéreuse Jonquille - Les Fleurs Animées Vol.I - Litho by J.J. Grandville - 1847
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.3 x 17.5 cm. Single sheet with passepartout. "...The unhappy man had approached that mysterious spot where, amid a thousand aquatic plants, the Water-arrow gr...
Lithograph
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
Surrealist 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. Plate: XXV111 Title: Soyez sans inquiétude, Mousieur ; deux mois de traitement, et je vous renvoie votre fils aussi droit que vois et moi. Unframed. 14.50” W x 11.50” H matted. By original owner). 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
French Louis XVI Promenade Costume Lithograph, 1792 – Published 1847
Located in Langweer, NL
French Louis XVI Promenade Costume Lithograph, 1792 – Published 1847 Description: A beautifully hand-colored French lithograph depicting an elegantly dressed gentleman and lady in f...
Paper
J.J. Grandville’s Les Fleurs Animees Print
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Savannah, GA
J.J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847) A print after J.J. Grandville’s Les Fleurs Animees, 20th century. In reclaimed wood frame with distressed paint. sight 5 ¾ by 8 ¾ inches ...
Glass, Wood, Paper
1898 original lithograph by Jules Chéret Spring Flower Les Maîtres de l’Affiche
By Jules Chéret
Located in PARIS, FR
This original lithograph by Jules Chéret, titled Spring Flower, was published in 1898 as Supplément Plate 5 in Les Maîtres de l’Affiche. Executed in delicate sanguine tones, the comp...
Paper, Lithograph
"Le Printemps de 1872" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1872 by A. Salmon and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Plate size: 8 1/4 x 5 inches (210 x 125 mm)...
Etching
