Lot 18705: JJ Grandville - Lithograph of Les Fleurs Animees 1846
This charming lithographic print is from Les Fleurs Animees by Jean Jacques Grandville published in 1846.
Grandville (pseudonym for Jean Ignace Isador Gerard 1803-1847) worked as an illustrator, painter and caricaturist. He is famous for his depictions of human figures as flowers and animals.
Each hand-coloured print represents one or two flowers beautifully personified, mostly by exquisite flower-decked young belles and the occasional animal.
The prints in this work are a tableau of perfection and artistic composition that makes these prints unusual even in the annals of botanical prints illustration, where artistry and imagination have always ruled and the colours are fresh and bright, printed on creamy paper.
Size: 6.5in x 10in (16.5cm x 25.5cm)
Condition report:
Excellent condition - please review the images carefully
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