"So there was no noise in Paris?"

"So there was no noise in Paris?" by J. J. Grandville|Langlumé

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 5/8 in. (20.6 × 24.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958

Accession Number

58.512.22

Art Historical Context

In the turbulent wake of France's July Revolution of 1830, which toppled the Bourbon monarchy and ushered in the July Monarchy, French caricaturist J.. Grandville (Jeangnace-Isidore, 1803–1847), often collaborating with artist Langlumé, produced this lithograph titled *"So there was no noise in Paris?"*. Grandville was a pioneer of satirical illustration, renowned for his anthropomorphic animals and sharp social commentary that critiqued politics, fashion, and human folly. This work, likely poking fun at the eerie calm following revolutionary uproar or the regime's fragile stability, exemplifi...

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