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Jean-Jacques Grandville (French, 1803-1847)

The vivid imagination of nineteenth century French illustrator Jean-Jacques Grandville is illustrated through his trademark style of animated figures and objects, anthropomorphic animals, and strange metamorphoses. In the series Les Metamorphoses du jour (Today's Metamorphoses), Grandville's first major success, the artist humorously replaces human heads with satirically appropriate animal heads in scenes of daily 19th century life and fashion, often referring directly to newsworthy events of the day. In the series Les Fleurs Animees (Animated Flowers), beautiful maidens are dressed in colorful and elaborate dresses and bonnets fashioned from the blossoms and foliage of common flowers. Grandville's prints are hand colored pen lithographs done after his drawings.

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  Pacot & Guguste
  From Metamorphoses du Jour
  Hand-colored lithograph, 1829. Published by Garnier Freres, Paris. Some minor spotting and some smudges.
  Sheet: 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches.
  [21620]
  $100
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  Quelques-unes de nos bêtes de somme
  (Some of the nation’s beasts of burden)
  From Metamorphoses du Jour
  Hand-colored lithograph, 1829. Published by Garnier Freres, Paris. Spotting and smudges.
  Sheet: 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches.
  [21633]
  $100
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  C’est pas ici une farmacerie
  (This isn’t a pharmacy)
  From Metamorphoses du Jour
  Hand-colored lithograph, 1829. Published by Garnier Freres, Paris. Some smudges and a couple areas of foxing.
  Sheet: 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches.
  [21615]
  $100
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  Tu t’entètes à jouer avec Monsieur; tu vois bien qu’il retourne le roi à chaque coup. (You insist on playing with Monsieur; you can see very well he returns with the king every time)
  From Metamorphoses du Jour
  Hand-colored lithograph, 1829. Published by Garnier Freres, Paris. Spotting.
  Sheet: 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches.
  [21616]
  $100
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  T’as raison Gauthier, c’est pas ceux qu’habitent les bels hôtels qu’est les plus heureux (You’re right Gauthier, it’s not those who livein the finest hotels who are the happiest)
  From Metamorphoses du Jour
  Hand-colored lithograph, 1829. Published by Garnier Freres, Paris. Some smudges.
  Sheet: 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches.
  [21624]
  $100
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  A votre droit est le signe du Capricorne. Si cette dame ava&rsqo;t un petit chapeau moderne, on verrait...(To your right is Capricorn...If that lady had a small modern hat we would see...)
  From Metamorphoses du Jour
  Hand-colored lithograph, 1829. Published by Garnier Freres, Paris. Spotting and smudges.
  Sheet: 6-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches.
  [21614]
  $100