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J. J. Grandville Furniture

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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Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875
Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875

Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875

$585

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...

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Early 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique J. J. Grandville Furniture

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Whimsical Animal Hand Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875
Whimsical Animal Hand Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875

Whimsical Animal Hand Colored Copper Plate Engraving by Granville, Paris 1875

$495

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...

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19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique J. J. Grandville Furniture

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Rare Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Engraving JJ Grandville, Paris 1875
Rare Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Engraving JJ Grandville, Paris 1875

Rare Surrealist Animal Hand-Colored Copper Engraving JJ Grandville, Paris 1875

$620

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...

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Early 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique J. J. Grandville Furniture

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