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My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" Wall Art
ART BY: J. J. Grandville
My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" Wall Art
ART BY: J. J. Grandville
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My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" is a wood engraving by J. J. Grandville (1803–1847), dated 1852. The artist is catalogued as French. This reproduction is based on the copy in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2582 × 3626 px. Catalogued under Prints and Romanticism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 440 works by J. J. Grandville, a French artist.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard was a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville ( ), and numerous variations throughout his career.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by J. J. Grandville →
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