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JJ Grandville 1803-1847

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2020-05-08

J.J. Grandville in Poor Minette -The Letters of Two French Cats, 1842.

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2020-05-04

Adventures of a French Cat, J. J. Grandville, Published in the book The Public and Private Life of Animals, 1877.

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2020-04-27

FLOWERS PERSONIFIED It can be hazardous being a flower maiden, you might be possessed by an over zealous collector, or if too invasive or unruly, Hawthorn & Gillyflower, you risk being contained by male gardeners 🎨 J. J. Grandville, Les Fleurs Animées. 1867

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2020-04-18

Les Fleurs Animées (The Flowers Personified)
Tulip and Pansy by JJ Grandville (1847)

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2020-04-15

J. J. Grandville's Les fleurs animées (1847) features fashionable French ladies as wilting wildflowers & sinister herbs. 🌷🌿 A frowning Hemlock w/ mortar & pestle prepares dangerous concoctions & Narcissicus admires her reflection.

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2020-04-15

"Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners"

(from 'Othello')


by J. J. Grandville

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2020-04-05

Some more art favorites for inspiration: 🌟 J. J. Grandville 🌟 "La Vie privée et publique des animaux" (Public and Private Life of Animals).

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2020-03-26

Next was J.J. Grandville
i rlly liked their series “les fleurs animées” so I tried my luck at watercolor here

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2020-03-25

3-5: some very flirty flowers, from Les Fleurs Animees (The Flowers Personified) by J.J. Grandville, 1847. Clockwise from left: water arrow, thistle, and wallflower.

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2020-03-23

Thankfully such remarkable visual storytelling isn't confined to Brit heritage, it's alive & well today with works like 's superb Grandville, or the ever-changing styles of

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2020-03-19

Lady Hemlock releases Bunny Socrates from life. More from J. J. Grandville's wonderful Flowers Personified (1847) here: https://t.co/csMxYA2HE4

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2020-02-14

Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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2020-01-23

'La Bohème' Grandville-style: "After a year in Paris, he had sixteen friends. But within five years, thirteen of them were dead."
https://t.co/tM4GVNsHre

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2020-01-07

THE FLOWERS PERSONIFIED (Les Fleurs Animées), 1847. By J.J. Grandville.

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2019-12-24

April fools. J.-J. Grandville, from Un autre monde by Taxile Delord, Paris, 1844 https://t.co/iNJQNlBioe

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2019-10-29

Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by flowers & humanised insects. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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2019-09-26