Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Vignettes par Grandville. First edition.
Grandville, artist; P.J. Stahl, directeur
Published by Paris, Hetzel et Paulin, 1842
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8vo. 18 x 26cm., Later buckram with leather label. marginal tears on a few plates, repaired./1 vol in 8, rel pleine toile écrue moderne, pièce de titre verte, ill in T et HT (des déchirures dans les pl). Seller Inventory # 16-5264
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Title: Scènes de la vie privée et publique des ...
Publisher: Paris, Hetzel et Paulin
Publication Date: 1842
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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SCÈNES DE LA VIE PRIVÉE ET PUBLIQUE DES ANIMAUX Vignettes par Grandville (First Edition)
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Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Hetzel Éditeur, Paris, 1842. Full Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volumes: 386pages + Table; 390 pages + Table. Original black cloth expertly rebacked, richly gilt decorated. Frontispieces protected w/ tissue, etc., many illustrations. Grandville's masterpiece, lampooning cintemporary politics and society via his animal-caricatures. Carteret III 552-559. Gordon Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 194. Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (September 13, 1803 ? March 17, 1847), French caricaturist, generally known by the pseudonym of J.J. Grandville. He was born at Nancy, in north eastern 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 moved to Paris, where he soon afterwards published a collection of lithographs entitled Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté. He followed this with Les Plaisirs de toutdge and La Sibylle des salons; 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 Le 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, L'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 died on March 17, 1847. A short notice of Gérard, under the name of Grandville, is contained in Théophile Gautier's Portraits contemporains. See also Charles Blanc, Grandville (Paris, 1855). Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 1000495
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