1849
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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$8,841
H 12.21 in W 9.81 in D 0.48 in
Drawing from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Signed in ink by the artist in ink. Original ink drawing and watercolor on paper realized by Grandville for the volume “Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux”, published by...
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
$212
H 10.83 in W 7.29 in D 0.08 in
The Recommendation - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
The Recommendation 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 ...
Paper, Lithograph
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$353
H 11.82 in W 8.67 in D 0.04 in
Scènes de la Vie [...] - Rare Book Illustrated by J. J. Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux is an original modern rare book illustrated by Jean Jacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 – Vanves, 1...
Paper, Lithograph
$471
H 8.67 in W 10.63 in D 0.04 in
Je Crois qu'il est un peu Fermé - Lithograph after J.J. Grandvile- 1830
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Je Crois qu'il est un peu Ferme is an original Modern Artwork realized in the 1830s after the illustrator and caricaturist J.J. Grandville. Original Lithograph hand watercolored. ...
Lithograph
$1,296
H 6.5 in W 10.04 in D 0.04 in
Florian traduit par Grandville - Rare Book Illustrated by J.J. Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Florian traduit par Grandville is an original modern rare book illustrated by Jean Jeacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 – Vanves, 1847) in 1849. Original First Edition. Published by Pa...
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
$2,121
H 10.63 in W 7.49 in D 0.04 in
Les Métamorphoses du Jour - Rare Book Illustrated by J. J. Grandville - 1869
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Les Métamorphoses du Jour is an original modern rare book written by Various Authors and illustrated by Jean Jacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 – ...
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
$212
H 7.09 in W 7.68 in D 0.08 in
The Benediction - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
The Benediction is an original lithograph by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but ...
Paper, Lithograph
$2,652
H 10.04 in W 7.29 in D 0.4 in
Un Autre Monde - Rare Book by J.J Grandville - 1844
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Un Autre Monde is an original modern rare book written by Taxile Delord (Avignon, 1815 - Paris, 1877) and illustrated by Jean Jeacques Grandville...
Paper, Lithograph
$530
H 9.06 in W 5.91 in D 0.4 in
Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine - Rare Book by J.J Grandville - 1846
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine is an original modern rare book written by Nick Old and engraved by Jean Jeacques Grandville (Nancy, 1803 –...
Paper, Engraving
$212
H 6.5 in W 7.68 in D 0.08 in
Il Ne S'agit Pas D'Aboyer - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Il ne s'agit pas d'aboyer, ici, mais de mordre is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvar...
Paper, Engraving
