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J. J. Grandville
J. J. Grandville

J. J. Grandville

French, 1803-1847
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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, generally known by the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques, J. J. Grandville or most commonly simply Grandville, was a French caricaturist.

He was born at Nancy, in northeastern France, to an artistic and theatrical family. The name "Grandville" was his grandparents' professional stage name. 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 afterwards 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.

The success of this work led to his being engaged as artistic contributor to various periodicals, such as La Silhouette, L'Artiste, La Caricature, Le Charivari; and his political caricatures which were characterized by marvelous fertility of satirical humour, soon came to enjoy a general popularity.

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, among which may be mentioned La Vie privée et publique des animaux, Les Cent Proverbes, Un Autre Monde and Les Fleurs animées.

Though the designs of Grandville are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen analysis of character and marvellous inventive ingenuity, and his humour is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness. He suffered increasingly from grave mental problems and died on 17 March 1847. He is buried in the Cimetière Nord of Saint-Mandé just outside Paris.

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Brennus

Brennus (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Clown

Clown (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Crown of Cornflowers

Crown of Cornflowers (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Damned Springtime

Damned Springtime (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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De Profundis

De Profundis (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Fortune

Fortune (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Frétillon

Frétillon (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Infinitely Small

Infinitely Small (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Jacob’s Ladder

Jacob’s Ladder (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Jeannette

Jeannette (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Louis XI

Louis XI (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Memories of the People

Memories of the People (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Mr. Judas

Mr. Judas (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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My Burial

My Burial (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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My Coat

My Coat (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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My cure

My cure (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Passing Young Girls

Passing Young Girls (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Praise of Chicken

Praise of Chicken (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Psara

Psara (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Request of quality dogs

Request of quality dogs (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Robin, the Friend

Robin, the Friend (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Attic

The Attic (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Barbaric Holy Alliance

The Barbaric Holy Alliance (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Beadle

The Beadle (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Bell Ringer

The Bell Ringer (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Big Orgy

The Big Orgy (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Blind Man of Bagnolet

The Blind Man of Bagnolet (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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The Boxers

The Boxers (1836)

J. J. Grandville (French, 1803-1847)
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