GRANDVILLE
French illustrator (1803-1847)
Biography:
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, alias Grandville, was born in Nancy in 1803. He goes to Paris at the age of 23, where he makes an stage for Mansion and Hippolyte Lacomte editors. He got his start as illustrator in minor magazines and in designing costumes for theatre. In 1829, when he was 26, he became famous for his Métamorphoses du jour, with caricatures of humans with animal heads. In 1838 he was asked to illustrate Swift's Gulliver, one of his most celebrated illustrated books. He died insane in a menatl home. Surrealist artist consider him their forerunner.
Works illustrated by Grandville:
Boccace, Contes, dessins, s.d.
Taxile Delord, Les Fleurs animées, G. de Gonet, 1847.
Méry, Les Etoiles, G. de Gonet-Martinon, 1849.
Miguel Cervantes, Don Quichotte, 1848, 15 ill.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoé, 112 dessins.
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, Fournier, 1838, 120 ill.
L. Reybaud, Jérôme Paturot, 167 ill.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver, Fournier, 1838, 206 ill.