"He was a regular on the front lines..." from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 7 3/16 in. (26.2 × 18.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.592(14)
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical yet biting world of 19th-century French satire with *"He was a regular on front lines..."* fromScenes from the Private and Life of Animals*. Created around 1837–47, this wood engraving features the masterful hand of illustrator J.J. Grandville whose anthropomorphic animals poke fun at human follies, alongside text by literary giant Honoré de Balzac and engraving by Joseph Hippolyte Julesqué. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department (The Elisha Whittelsey Collection,1959), the print measures a compact 10 5/16 × 7 3/16 inches, perfect for ...