Les Métamorphoses du Jour

Les Métamorphoses du Jour  is an original Modern Artwork realized in the 1830s by the French artist  Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard  (Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 1803  – Vanves, 1847). 

Original Lithograph with watercolors. 

Inscripted on the lower central margin. 

Dimensions: cm 27 x 36.

Mint conditions. 

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Les Métamorphoses du Jour    is an original Modern artwork realized by the French artist  Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard  (Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 1803  – Vanves, 1847). 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 . Grandville's ability for political provocation made his work much in demand. He worked in a wide variety of formats, from his first job illustrating the parlor game  Old Maid , to illustrated newspaper strips of which he was a master. His illustrations for  Le Diable à Paris  ("The Devil In Paris"; 1844–46) were used by Walter Benjamin for his study of that city as an urban organism. One of Grandville's supreme achievements, at a time when French printing technology was ascendant, was  Les Fleurs Animées , a series of images that are both poetic and satirical.