J J Grandville artwork entitled Les Poissons d'Avril. A group of fish sit atop a waterfall with their baited fishing rods attempting to catch humans,
GRANDVILLE (Jean-Ignace-Isidore GÉRARD, known as), French caricaturist, born in Nancy in 1803, died in Paris in 1847. His father was a miniature painter; his grandfather was a provincial actor, who changed his surname from Gérard to that of Grandville. After Gavarni and Daumier, Grandville occupies the first place in the history of modern caricature in France. A fine and delicate nature, dominated by the spirit of observation, he faithfully reproduced, with the tip of his mocking pencil, the quirks and the ridiculous of his time, but he did so in a way which is very personal to him. , with a bias which ends up degenerating into mania, that of giving the physiognomy, vices and passions of man, first to animals and plants, then to all kinds of unspecified objects,at the risk of falling into the incomprehensible and the baroque. (Source: Pierre Larousse, Grand Universal Dicitionary of the XIXth century).
Size: 4910px × 6945px
Location: Another World
Photo credit: © Doctor Snuggle Juggles / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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