biography
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Gérard, Jean-Ignace-Isidore
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known as Jean Grandville
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pronunciation:
[zhayrah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1803–47)
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| biography:
| Illustrator and caricaturist, born in Nancy, NE France. He studied under his father before moving to Paris in 1820. He produced a series of lithographs (1827–9), the last of which was Les Métamorphoses du Jour (1829) in which he ascribed animal guises to his human subjects. From 1835 he illustrated books, notably Les Fables de la Fontaine (1838). His masterpiece was Un Autre Monde (1844). He died insane. |
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