Scènes de la vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (Scenes from the Public and Private Lives of Animals)[Volume 1]

1842

Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Author, French, 1814 - 1886

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville

Illustrator, French, 1803 - 1847

Louis-Henri Brévière

Wood-engraver, French, 1797 - 1869

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 of 2 bound volumes. Volume I: 91 wood engravings in text, 1 facing title and 1 at end of text. Volume II: 114 wood engravings in text, 1 facing title. Both volumes contain numerous headpieces, tailpieces, and other ornamental vignettes.

  • Credit Line

    Professor William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Accession

    2006.145.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Phoebe Dunbar (bookplate inside front cover); (Maggs Bros. Ltd., 2006); Purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1986

  • Ray, Gordon. The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700 to 1914. 2 vols. New York, 1986: 2: no. 194.

2006

  • Maggs Bros. Ltd. "Continental Books, catalogue 1396." London, 2006: no. 37.

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