"All that remains is to close the blessed trunk!" from the Little Miseries of Human Life
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (28.5 × 19 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965
Accession Number
65.570.61(27)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delightful wood engraving, titled *"All that remains is to close blessed trunk!"* from the series *Little Miseries of Human Life*, was created in 1843 the renowned French caricaturist J.J. Grandville, in collaboration with Paul-Émile Daurand-Forgues (Quichon), and engravers Henri Fournier. 11¼ × 7½ inches, it captures a comically exasperated moment of domestic chaos, featuring men and women wrestling with beds and luggage—an everyday frustration elevated to absurd hilarity. Grandville, a master of 19th-century satire, belonged to the Romantic era's caricature tradition, where wood engrav...
About the Artist
Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues|Quichon|J. J. Grandville|Henri Fournier (French|French|French) · 1813 | |1803 –1883 | |1847
French, Paris 1813–1883 Cannes| |French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves