Journey for Eternity, No. 6
ca. 1839
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 7/16 in. (25.7 × 34.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1965
Accession Number
52.546.19(7)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the whimsical yet macabre world of 19th-century French satire, *Journey for Eternity, No 6* (ca. 1839) by J. J. Grandville (with Langlumé) stands out as a lithograph from a fantastical series. Grandville, a master caricaturist renowned for his grotesque anthropomorphic figures and social commentary, captures a bizarre banquet scene featuring skeletons, men, and dogs gathered around a dining table. This print, measuring 10 1/8 × 13 7/16 inches, evokes the Romantic era's fascination with mortality and the afterlife, blending humor with the eerie. Lithography, the medium here, was revolutiona...