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The rippling water seems to be mocking our misfortune, from "Little Miseries of Human Life" Wall Art
ART BY: J. J. Grandville
The rippling water seems to be mocking our misfortune, from "Little Miseries of Human Life" Wall Art
ART BY: J. J. Grandville
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The rippling water seems to be mocking our misfortune, from "Little Miseries of Human Life" is a wood engraving by J. J. Grandville (1803–1847), dated 1843. The artist is catalogued as French. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2460 × 3609 px. It is filed 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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