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Source Description
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known by his pseudonym J. J. Grandville, honed his craft by drawing vignettes and illustrations for newspapers, including "La Silhouette," "L'Artiste," "La Caricature," and "Le Charivari." Some of these were printed daily, requiring tremendous powers of invention from the artists they employed. Grandville's early work allied his precise draftsmanship with a keen caricaturist's eye. This drawing was made for a lithographic frontispiece for a piece of sheet music, "Une Course d'Omnibus" (A Trip on the Omnibus) by Charles Henri Plantade (1764-1839).
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Document identity
localId
39141
label
Une Course d'Omnibus
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
39141
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Une Course d'Omnibus
description
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known by his pseudonym J. J. Grandville, honed his craft by drawing vignettes and illustrations for newspapers, including "La Silhouette," "L'Artiste," "La Caricature," and "Le Charivari." Some of these were printed daily, requiring tremendous powers of invention from the artists they employed. Grandville's early work allied his precise draftsmanship with a keen caricaturist's eye. This drawing was made for a lithographic frontispiece for a piece of sheet music, "Une Course d'Omnibus" (A Trip on the Omnibus) by Charles Henri Plantade (1764-1839).
provenance
19th-century collection of drawings, England [yet to be identified]; Private collection, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Jean-Marie Le Fell, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Louis and Rosalie Berman Philanthropic Fund, 2001 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.
date
ca. 1828
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
8.8
height
19.9
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 7/16 x W: 7 13/16 in. (8.8 x 19.9 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
""J I Grandville"" in iron gall ink
bottom left edge
med
iron gall ink with graphite underdrawing on smooth, thin (?), beige wove paper
creator_ids
8423
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2069
2830
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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453e77413315963f