"Praise of Chicken" from The Complete Works of Béranger
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 5 1/2 in. (21.9 × 14 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
59.500.687(7)
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings Prints department will delight in "Praise of Chicken," a wood engraving from 1836, featured in *The Complete Works of Banger*. Created by the celebrated French caricaturist J. J. Grandville, contributions from designer Lacoste and printers Fournier & Perrot in Paris, it illustrates a poem by lyricist Pierre Jean de Béranger. Béranger, a master of satirical chansons during France's turbulent post-Napoleonic era, often infused his works with humor and social commentary, making this ode to the humble chicken a playful gem from the Romantic per...
About the Artist
Pierre Jean de Béranger|Lacoste, Paris|Fournier & Perrotin|J. J. Grandville (French|French) · 1780 | –1857 |
French, Paris 1780–1857 Paris|French