J. J. Grandville

The Pedder - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville

1845 ca.

Image dimensions: 20x14 cm Hand signed. Original ink watercolored drawing on paper. Made for the illustration of the volume 'Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux', publis...

The Chef is an original ink watercolored drawing on paper realized by Jean-Jacques Grandville. A wonderful satiric illustration from the volume 'Scènes de la vie privée et publique ...

Hand-signed in black ink on the lower margin at the center. A beautiful satiric illustration, from the volume 'Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux', published by Garner ...

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...

Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters Black pencil and watercolor on paper 18.5 x 25.5 cm Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right In good condition, foxings on the original mount Framed 34 x 40 cm Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[ Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs. He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...

Pencil and watercolor portrait of a person in loose period clothing displaying nervous energy and vibrant demeanor by P.B. Faurnier, 1833. Signed lowe...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) A Carnival character and a Zouave 19.5 x 12.5 cm Pen and ink on paper Signed lower left with the initials (faded) In a modern framing : 35 x 28 cm T...

A charming 19th Century watercolour depicting a Fisherman's wife wrapped in a tartan shawl holding a hand of cards. The artist captures the woman in profile, sporting a dotted head s...