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- Despite his significant contribution to the development of humorous and satirical illustration, outside France Jean-Jacques Grandville doesn't get anything like the recognition or admiration his work demands. And it was his inclusion in my recent Aesop's Fables video which reminded me just how significant that contribution was, and still is. I hope you'll agree.
I don't know how he carried on working with so much tragedy at such a young age. Maybe his focus on his work was cathartic. But it's hard to deny he had great talent that rivaled his torment.
Thank you for another eye opening & informative video Pete.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. It does seem that when faced with personal tragedy many illustrators immerse themselves in work as a reason to carry on.
Dear Sir,
The importance of your excellent research becomes clear, as it is very difficult to see the works of such remarcable artists in museums. I've seen Rembrantd's illustrations, but seldom, if ever, of the great artists you study. Thanks!
Cheers from Brazil!
Hello again and your comment is very welcome. It's really good to know that I am introducing more people to these great illustrators - and all around the planet too!
Likewise.
@Fermati Chebellosei Well, i see no problem with a little respect and a hint of formality. Just because i like his videos is not enough to feel like we're old acquaintances... Sound better than "Whassup, geezer?" 😆
Another wonderful video, Mr Beard. Thank you.
I love Les Fleurs Animees and have seen so many editions and even some of the original 'livraisons' in doily like wrappers. Each different. Each unique. I have never bought because to me there is no 'definitive' edition and this is compounded by the chromolithos almost immediately after the steel engravings neither of which Grandville lived to see published. I have a nice facsimile which conveys well the book's intentions and has the silly Delford commentaries translated into English. I love picking it up and admiring the exquisite invention and the tad surreal madness. I consider him a giant in the art of Illustration and thank you again for such a knowledgeable and insightful account of his work and life.
Hello again and thanks once more for your comment and insight. I found it interesting that even in the flower images - which I'm guessing were aimed more at the female reader - he couldn't help including some little disturbing elements and animal characters. A true giant of illustration I've admired all my adult life.
Thank you for introducing me to Granville. I am actually familiar with one of the pieces you presented, the one with the three cats, one of them a devil cat and another an angel cat but I had not seen any of his other work. What a talented and imaginative illustrator! How heartbreaking and tragic were the losses he suffered and his early demise.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. As you say a tragic short life but what a talent he had.
Pete, thank you for the constant inspiration you give us by remembering these incredible artists 👏🏻👏🏻.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comment.
A wonderful discovery for me. I'm no illustrator, but I do sometimes enjoy putting bird heads on vintage photographs in photoshop - the hoopoe-headed man at the beginning particularly charmed me (I'm also a huge fan of hoopoes). What I've found so striking about your biographical format is how the collection serves as an astonishing sample of human life. All of the subjects are illustrators. But their life paths are as varied as can be found in any collection of people and are thus absolutely fascinating.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your message. And I'm really pleased you enjoy the end results of my labours.
I'd never heard of this artist before, although one of his images turned out to be familiar from somewhere. I'm astounded. Thank you, Mr. Beard, for this one especially. Some of the imagery in Grandville's work strikes me in a new and unexpected way. Wow.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Grandville remains for me one of the most important illustrators and satirists of all time so I'm very pleased you enjoyed the video. Apparently his images were used for a Queen album so maybe thats where you saw one.
Tragedy and the extraordinary often go hand in hand. One of those semi-obscure illustrators one has seen but never knew. Remember having seen that Strange creature at 7:31. And also the reinterpreted "Juggler of Universes" as seen on the Queen album Innuendo and the singles with other Grandville renditions (did a little research). Enlightening as always.
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment and observations. The beastie at 7.31 I recently saw used on a meme about covid.
What a beautiful video. I saw many of his books at fairs where they would be placed with 19th century chromolithographs and engravings. I would agree he is the first surrealist, his work is indeed from Another World. Thanks again, Pete.
Hi and thanks. I'll e-mail soon-ish. I hope this does better than Rose O'Neill - far from popular.
@@petebeard I'm surprised to hear that, Rose was one of the most popular woman illustrators of all time. She just won the Eisner award at this years Comic Con.
It is amazing that he was able to produce such amazing work after so many tragedies. Thanks for bringing him to life Pete!
Hi again ans I'm glad you enjoyed (seems an inappropriate word given the misery of his private life) this video.He was one of the earliest illustrators I discovered in my youth who was responsible for my own unremarkable career as a pencil squeezer.
Long, longtime fan of Grandville, but I knew nothing of him. Thanks again Pete for fleshing out these stars so comprehensively.
Hello and I'm pleased to have been able to shine a light on his admittedly tragic life and marvellous career. I've loved his work ever since I first encountered it half a century ago.
I love this! First heard of him this year after purchasing the Fantastic Menagerie Tarot by Baba Studios that incorporates his beautiful images.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I wasn't aware of the tarot.
I love His art-works, I'm an Artist,and I live at the Grandville Assistant living,I draw,Cat,Crabs, Lobsters, Submarines,
Air-Ships,and Space Ships.🤗
Hello and many thanks for your comment. And it's good to hear you are creating pictures - one of life's great pleasures I always think.
No matter when style of illustration Granville chose, his incredible drawing skill and his vivid imagination always shines through. It is tragic that his life was marked by personal tragedy and then cut short. It seems the cause of death was infection rather than madness. Your well-researched video presentations do much to bring illustrators like Granville to wider public attention. Thanks for this.
Hello again and it's a genuine pleasure to know that you and others continue to find the channel of educational interest.
@@petebeard Yes, Pete, there appears to be a considerable number of us who enjoy the work you put into your video presentations. Some of these illustrators I already knew about but many others are new to me, and for that I appreciate the series. Thanks.
Wow Pete, you gave this remarkable artist his due. Well done.
I always watch your videos 3X’s in order to get the most out of them..They are so full of both historical and visual information.
I’d love to see illustrations of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I wish I could find a 1950’s eddition I remember having as a very small child. I fell in love with the creatures in the borders. I’m trying to find a copy.
Hello and thanks as ever for your appreiation. And as it happens I'm currently working on what will almost certainly be a 2 part video of the history of illustrated Grimms. I'm hoping it will be up in couple of months. I don't suppose you can remember who illustrated your 50s edition?
@@petebeard that’s exciting!!!!!I’m looking through what I can find to see if I can recognize the work. I’ll let you know if I think I’ve found them. Thanks again Pete
What a compelling body of work! And seeing so many of his images here together with your wonderful commentary - well, one cannot help but see Grandville’s obvious influence on later generations of painters and illustrators. There were moments in your video montage where I was thinking of Rossetti’s parody sketches that featured his pet wombat - then of the print of Albert Lambron’s “A Pest” that I have in my living room - then Arthur Rackham’s delightfully wacky anthropomorphic critters that I spent hours and hours with during my childhood - and of course John Tenniel, Ernest Shepard, Garth Williams, etc etc etc - the list goes on. THANK YOU for this delightful interlude to an otherwise ordinary and somewhat dull day!
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and observations about this video. I wasnt aware of a couple of references you made so I will have to check them out. And if you haven't already seen them there are videos about both Rackham and Shepard on the channel you might find of interest. Sorry for the shameless plug...
@@petebeard I am looking forward to exploring more of your wonderful videos!
You have finally given me one illustrator that I can remember from my childhood. My grandmother had an old book, in French if memory serves, that contained many of his drawings. I particularly remember the pictures of frogs and alligators in men’s clothing. I had no clue what the words meant, but I loved the pictures! My grandmother has been dead for over forty years now and all her belongings have been divided up amongst her friends and a few relatives. I wonder what happened to that book.
Such a magnificent artist with a pretty tragic life, losing that many children must have been hard but then again that was the case to many people in those times. Also, as a fun fact the group Queen used a lot of his illustrations as the cover for their last studio album before the death of Freddy Mercury.
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Hello and yes it's easy to forget the high infant mortality rates in earlier times. Here's a not-so-fun fact. My father (born 1910) was one of 9 children, only 4 of whom made it to adulthood. And thanks for the Queen connection, which I didnt know about.
Thanks for this. His work was used in the game, Aviary Attorney.
Thanks for the comment - and the information. I must check this game out.
What a wonderful illustrator (if a sad life). Thanks for reviving him Pete. Pretty striking among his insect and insect human hybrids (except for a few grasshoppers) are the beetles. He must have agreed, as Haldane noted, with the Creator's 'inordinate fondness for beetles'. I suppose the beetles, being hard-shelled, make more lasting models and there is an extraordinary diversity of them.
Hi again and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. I've been in awe of grandville's talent and imagination all my adult life. And I must admit until your comment it hadn't really hit me that he must have spent large amounts of time acually studying the little beasties.
Makes my day when there's a new video. Thank you for putting in the effort. Greatly appreciated
Hello and it makes my day to recieve positive comments such as yours. Thanks.
I like the fact that when you feature just one artist in your video, we learn so much more!! Two things are sad to me: that he was often uncredited for his work (maddening) & that so much death occurred in his family (heartbreaking). I agree with your term "visually unsettling" regarding Granville's work, but think it's good to push people out of their artistic comfort zones sometimes, though the king didn't seem to like being compared to a pear, lol. My favorites of his work were when he depicted animals as they really were, but with a certain humanness in their expressions. Thanks again for all your hard work. Your videos make my whole week.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and observations about this video. Generally I'm a fan of unsettling and even grotesque imagery but others are more comfortable with cute or pretty. It takes all sorts I suppose...
Thank You, Pete Beard
Such great work you are doing.
The illustrators you show are always interesting. And you tell about them with so much respect.
I f you one day have the time, try to look up the danish illustrator Aage Sikker Hansen 1897-1955. I think you would like his illustrations.
With love and respect Lars
Hello Lars, and thanks a lot for your appreciation. And even more thanks for pointing me in the direction of Arge Sikker Hansen, who I had never previously heard of. A remarkable talent and I'm happy to say I've downloaded more than enough decent resolution images to be able to include him in the unsung heroes series. I dont know when hell appear but I hope its sooner rather than later. Thanks again.
@@petebeard I am the greatfull one.
Keep up the fantastic work.
Como a mente de um desenhista trabalhou tão bem em anos! Que imaginação, traços delicados, psicodélicos, surreais. Talvez ele tenha sido fonte de inspiração para Salvador Dalí e Pablo Picasso!! Infelizmente sua vida foi cheia de tragédias.
Olá e muito obrigado pelo seu comentário sobre este vídeo.
Thank you so much for posting these wonderful artists!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
I never heard about this peculiar artist, a new really intersting discovery. So many things to learn, and this is always a pleasure to have all these information in the living context of the artist !
Thanks you again for your work.
Hello again and it's a real pleasure to know that you and other viewers appreciate what I'm doing and understand why I'm trying to keep the memory of these illustrators alive.
In fact, Les Fleurs Animees is highly satirical but you have to understand the visual puns based on a combination of old poetic metaphors, floral morphology and French fads in horticulture, cosmetics and medicine. It's all about flower spirits who want careers but their success is limited by their own growth habits and obvious limits to female emancipation in the 19th century. Hemlock becomes a professional poisoner. A Christmas cactus leaves her hot habitat to run off to Paris with a botanist. The cold slows her down so all she can do is become a concierge clutching a pretty, miniature, enameled brazier to keep warm. The water lily becomes a nun and look at how Grandville turns the lily pads and petals into a habit complete with a rosary of seeds. The devil tempts her in the form of an insect but she's so pure he gives up (no pollination here).
Hello and many thanks for your insight. I hadn't seen the work in that light at all, and nobody until now had enlightened me, so thanks a lot.
Such sorrow and such accomplishments in such a short life. Thank you for your time, research and video.
very compelling, wasn’t it?
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. It was certainly a lot of tragedy for one man to endure.
Another wonderful video! I've recently added an Aesop's fables assignment to my syllabus with the focus being anthropomorphic illustrations. This will be a wonderful video to share with my class! Thank you Pete :)
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I hope your students are grateful for the knowledge you provide.
@@petebeard You and me both!
A genius artist with such a tragic life. Thank you for illuminating us with his story.
Hello and genius is a word that;s too frequently used these days but in Grandville's case is absolutely correct.
What a sad story of a wonderful talent, the poor man. No man should suffer the death of a child, let alone 3 of them and his wife. May the man find peace at last. Thanks peter
Hello and thanks for the comment. Unfortunately quite a few of the illustrators I;ve featured had less than smooth rides through this life, but Grandville's was particularly tragic, I agree.
What a tragic, but astonishingly productive life. Thank you.
Another great exploration into an under appreciated artist. I'm always amazed at the draftsmanship of these French illustrators; Doré, Daumier, etc. Quick question: did some of his author collaborators request Granville specifically for his work or was it luck or happenstance? Always curious about the role of the writer in situations like these (being someone who works on both sides of the fence, as it were). Thanks as always, Pete, for a great video.
Hello again, and the answer to your question is... I don't know. But having looked into this period in Europe in reasonable detail I'm happy to make a (mildly educated) guess. In Grandville's case his collaborations were I think most likely the result of drunken evenings in some bar or other where creatives of all stripes might gather and exchange ideas. And to an extent he was a writer himself, even if ony as a journalist. But when working on established literature such as Defoe, Swift and La Fontaine these were undoubtedly commissions emanating from the publishers. In the case of the lives of animals book it was his publisher who commissioned the various writers to accompany Grandville's images. Apparently Balzac was livid about this pastiche of his book, and I know for sure that many writers of the time hated having their work illustrated as they felt it devalued their art - and of course had to share royalties. That's a pretty long and inconclusive answer and I should probably have just stuck with 'I don't know'.
Best wishes
Pete
Most accomplished artist with so much detail in his illustrations
Hello and thanks for the comment.
What a life. Thank you for another great video.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
I don't know if it's just me but I've always wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the creation of these videos, they always seem to encapsulate their subject both biographically and visually so well. Personally I would love to see a "making of" video someday.
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I would make a 'making of' video but other than your good self I would imagine it would have extremely limited appeal to the average viewer, surely? Like you suggest in your comment, maybe someday. If you're interested I could post a brief outline of the process here which would explain the basics.
i learned about granville through alice in chain’s self titled album. the album contains an illustration from “another world”. i loved the image so much that i reverse image searched it to find it
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of his work.
Poor guy. 😥😥😥Thanks for keeping him alive.
Hello and yes a sad and brief life - but what a body of work.
There is a fun video game from 2015 called Aviary Attorney that uses Grandville's art in it.
Hello and that's something I didn't know, and now wish you hadn't told me about. What an insult to his memory.
Thank you for expanding our horizons...cheers...E
My pleasure, sir. Sorry to hear your ride is bumpy at the moment.
Great stuff. Thank you Mr. Beard!
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.
Eh up Granville !
Another great video. Thank you for resurrecting those great artists.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
This is wonderful. I knew a bit of Grandville's illustrations of La Fontaine's fables (the New York Review of Books used to include them as filler), but this goes far beyond those. I wonder whether Lewis Carroll might not have gotten some ideas from Grandville's imaginative pictures--I saw in your video a "Battle of the Cards" that suggests the end of Alice in Wonderland, and Alice meets gentlemen with fish or frog heads,, illustrated of course by John Tenniel, but quite close to the Grandville effect.
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. An interesting observation about Lewis Carroll too. I had never read that he might have been influenced but would think it more than likely. Tenniel would certainly have been aware of grandville.
Thank you so much for these beautiful video's! So many great illustrators.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel. It means a lot.
Another compelling episode. Thanks Pete.
Hello and Im glad you liked it.
You're just too marvelous for words! You're just toO very "VERY"/ to ever be/ in Webster's Dictionary! You're just too marvelous for words! Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis
Aw shucks...
What an education you offer. I'm thrilled with every notification. Tnx
Hi Mike and thanks as usual. It's good to know you continue to appreciate what I'm trying to do.
I don't understand why there are only 73k subscribers to this channel. Best wishes!
Hello and thanks for the vote of confidence. Naturally I'd like a lot more subscribers, but at my age I've learned to be grateful for what I have in this and so many other aspects of life.
Wonder how much of an inspiration he was for BoJack Horseman creators. Great video Pete!
Hello and I dont know but it does look suspiciously similar. Human body/animal head.
Wonderful illustrations and narration, thank-you so much for sharing!
Hello and thanks again for your apprciation. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
One of my favorites thank you.
Hello and thanks for the comment. A true genius in my opinion and a massive influence on so many who followed.
Thanks. I paused to study some of the illustrations. It's fortunate that original drawings were saved for future generations.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video and Grandville's remarkable talent.
Thanks again Pete!
My pleasure.
Wonderful ! Thanks Pete
Hello again and your continued appreciation of the channel is greatly valued. Thanks.
Excellent as always! Great work Mr. Beard!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Excellent
Hi and thanks a lot.
Hi Pete... a very creative and talented artist for his time!
Hello John and thanks for the comment. What an imagination.
TS 2:47 interesting wall shadows
Hi and yes I was taken with that one too.
Thanks, Pete!
Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
thank u
Hello and you're welcome.
I wonder if Grandville's work influenced that of John Tenniel.
Hello and wonder no more...it's recorded that he was a major influence not just on Tenniel but many of his British contemporaries too.
Absolutely captivating! Thank you so much for this video.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video - Grandville is among my all time favourites.
his work is wonderful!!
Hello and I'm glad you think so. I've loved his work for more than half a century.
Very cool
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
Beautifully done. Thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. Appreciation is always a welcome tonic.
@@petebeard you're very welcome.
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Wonderful! Thank you again. :)
Hello and thanks a lot.
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This was so awesome.
Hello and I'm delighted you think so. Thanks for the comment.
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Certainly. Thanks as usual.
Tenniel seems to have been very influenced by Grandville. And I have to wonder if Kafka ever saw the drawing shown at 1:04.
Thanks for the comment and yes the cockroach man is genuinely disturbing and funny at the same time. I always thought that about Metamorphosis too.
thank you for another wonderful insight
Hello again and thanks for the supportive comment.
A Battle of Cards? Did Lewis Carroll read that one? Because we all know about the redoubtable Miss Dee!
Hello and I don't know about Carroll, but I do know that Tenniel never made a secret of his admiration for Grandville's work.
Pete, can we be certain that this guy’s name was not Granouille?
Hello and surely it would be 'grenouille'?
Thank you, and, as always . . . !!
Hi again, and I'm glad to see you're finding more content that's of interest to you.
@@petebeard I enjoy your videos immensely. I'm of the "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" school of "thought", but I am learning much.
He died in 1847 and Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865. Did he inspire that art style or do you think he followed some trends of those you might've seen in the Alice book?
Hello and the connection wasn't coincidental. John Tenniel made no secret of his great admiration for both Grandville's imagination and technique. Some of the stylistic similarity was down to the common use of engraving to reproduce the original drawings but even so he undoubtedly was an inspiration to Tenniel and many other 19th century illustrators across Europe, and even the USA.
@@petebeard how fun! Thank you for all the work you put behind this channel
>kuh< adversity eh?
Into each life some rain must fall, but in his case it was more a monsoon.
@@petebeard - It's Rishi Sunak's new swimming pool that is the real victim. Cheers.
Well, that was grim Pete
Good illustrations tho'
Hello again, and for the time he lived in those deaths were far from unusual. I know that doesn't make it OK but here's a 'fun' fact I just shared with another viewer you might appreciate. My father was born in 1910 and was one of nine children. Only four of them made it to adulthood. And that was par for the course among the British working class at the time.
@@petebeard
I feel better now
Yes, life can be short and brutish. As Grandville said "Death takes a break to sharpen its scythe".
As a young child remember my mother off handily saying to me as I was eating breakfast "Yea, you had a brother." Turns out during WWII before I was born the kid didn't make it through.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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P.s. Might be of interest (if you're not already familiar with) You Tube channel *Absolute History* with Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb on the Victorian/Edwardian practices of adding plaster of paris, alum, to bread, boracic acid in milk, etc. that contributed to child mortality.
"Ten Dangerous Things In Edwardian/ Victorian Homes" - BBC 16 December 2013.
Arsenic in green wallpaper was unfortunate.
If nothing esle Dr. Lipscomb is easy on the eyes.
@@vincentgoupil180 I read that some historians believe that Napoleon's wallpaper actually attributed greatly to his death, for that same reason of arsenic poisoning.
(I also do think we have all learned from history and science that it is best not to marry our cousins.)
My 1970's generation has survived asbestos, leaded paint and gasoline, talcum powder, exposure to DDT and other pesticides, etc.; albeit to the detriment of our overall health.
The future generations may get it all right, one day.
@@vincentgoupil180 Hi and a belated thanks for that link. I knew some of it but far from all. If I looked like Dr. Lipscomb I bet I could get a TV series...
Thanks for posting....very interesting indeed.
Hello and I'm very glad you enjoyed it.