Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (September 13, 1803 - March 17, 1847), French caricaturist, generally known by the pseudonym of J.J. Grandville the professional name of his grandparents, who were actors was born at Nancy. September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. ... This article is about the city in France named Nancy. ...

He received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a miniature painter, and at the age of twenty-one came to Paris, where he soon afterwards published a collection of lithographs entitled Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté. He followed this by Les Plaisirs de toutdge and La Sibylle des salons; but the work which first established his fame was Les Metamorphoses du jours published in 1828, a series of seventy scenes in which individuals with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to play a human comedy. These drawings are remarkable for the extraordinary skill with which human characteristics are represented in animal facial features. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

The success of this work led to his being engaged as artistic contributor to various periodicals, such as Le Silhouette, L'Artiste, La Caricature, Le Charivari; and his political caricatures which were characterized by marvelous fertility of satirical humour, soon came to enjoy a general popularity. Le Charivari was an illustrated newspaper published in Paris, France from 1832 to 1937. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...

After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe. He also continued to issue various lithographic collections, among which may be mentioned La Vie privée et publique des animaux, Les Cent Proverbes, L'Autre Monde and Les Fleurs animées. Pierre-Jean de Béranger (August 19, 1780 - July 16, 1857), was a French songwriter. ... There are communes that have the name Fontaine, and Fontaines: Fontaine, in the Aube département Fontaine, in the Isère département Fontaine, in the Territoire de Belfort département Related names Fontaine-au-Bois, in the Nord département Fontaine-au-Pire, in the Nord département Fontaine... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735) is a work of fiction by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. ... Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface, as well as a method of manufacturing semiconductor and MEMS devices. ...

Though the designs of Grandville are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen analysis of character and marvellous inventive ingenuity, and his humour is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness. He died on the 17th of March 1847.

A short notice of Gérard, under the name of Grandville, is contained in Théophile Gautier's Portraits contemporains. See also Charles Blanc, Grandville (Paris, 1855). Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 31, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist and literary critic. ...

Interesting trivia:

The rock band Queen used part of his artwork for the cover and backcover of their last release before the death of Freddie Mercury, named Innuendo. Queen is a British rock band which was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Freddie Mercury - Live at Wembley 1986 Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946 – November 24, 1991) was a singer and the lead vocalist of the British Rock band Queen. ... Innuendo is a 1991 album by British rock band Queen. ...

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