Illustration in Jérôme Paturot, by Louis Reybaud, Paris, 1846
ca. 1846
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash over graphite.
Dimensions
sheet: 4 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. (12.6 x 13.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.602.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the satirical world of 19th France with this delicate drawing by J.J. Grandville, a illustrator of the era. Created around 1846, it served as an illustration for *Jérôme Paturot* by Louis Reybaud, sharp-witted novel published in Paris that lampooned the social climbers and bureaucratic absurdities of the July Mon under King Louis-Philippe. Grandville, renowned for his fantastical caricatures blending humans with animals, captured the era's political and cultural tensions through exaggerated, humorous vignettes—here likely featuring male figures, as suggested by the artwork's tags. E...