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J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

French, 1803-1847

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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(Biography provided by Wallector)

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Artist: J. J. Grandville
L’amour Croise des Race - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by J.J. Grandville - 1833
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
L’amour Croise des Races (Agence matrimoniale) is an original drawing with watercolor, Ink, pencil on paper, realized by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1833, from provenance by descent...
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1830s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper, Ink

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...
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1840s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Le Caricature - Hand-Colored Lithograph by Jean-Jacques Grandville - 1831
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Le Caricature is an original Hand-colored lithograph realized by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1831. with a sentence on the lower center "On s'abonne chez Aubert Galerie Vero-Dodat", Ha...
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19th Century Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Lithograph

The Devotee - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
The Devotee is an original ink watercolored drawing on paper realized by Jean-Jacques Grandville. Hand-signed in black ink on the lower margin at the center. A beautiful satiric il...
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1840s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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The Pedder - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Original ink watercoloured drawing on paper. Made for the illustration of the volume 'Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux', published by Garner frères in 186...
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1840s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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The Intellectual - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
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 ...
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1840s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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The Chef - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
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 ...
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1840s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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The Ragman - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville
By J. J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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1840s Modern J. J. Grandville Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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