Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard)

Le Pouvoir use les Hommes (The Service Provided by Men)

Grandville's original lithograph, Le Pouvoir use les Hommes (The Service Provided by Men) is printed upon thick wove paper and with full margins as published in Paris by La Caricature in 1832. It is signed by Grandville on the stone to the lower left. Le pouvoir use les hommes is a fine, original example of the satirical/fantasy art created by the French artist, Grandville Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard).

Original lithograph by the French artist, Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard).

Le pouvoir use les hommes Original lithograph by the French artist Grandville also listed as Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard

Le Pouvoir use les Hommes (The Service Provided by Men)

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Title:	Le pouvoir use les hommes (The Service Provided by Men)
Artist:	Grandville 'Gerard, Jean Ignace Isidore' (Nancy, 1803 - l'asile d'alienes de Vanves, 1847)
Date:	1832
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	La Caricature, Paris
Note:	Grandville 'Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard': One of France's greatest artists of the first half of the nineteenth century, Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) studied art under his father, a miniature painter. Grandville began his career in this genre but by the late 1820's he had moved to Paris and devoted himself almost exclusively to lithography. In 1829 his first set of lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du jour, met with immediate success. This was followed a year later with Galerie mythologique, a set which delightfully updated and parodied mythological scenes.
	In 1830 Grandville took part in the Revolution. For the following five years he produced lithographs for Charles Philipon and his now famous journal, La Caricature. Philipon founded La Caricature in November, 1830. Issued weekly, it contained one page of text (written by such authors as Balzac) and two original lithographs, created by such outstanding artists as Daumier, Grandville and Travies. Almost exclusively satirical in nature, it attacked the political, royal and religious powers at one of France's most tumultuous times. The corrupt King and his appointed associates were particular targets. Shortly after the defeat of the revolutionary insurgence in Paris in April, 1835, La Caricature was suppressed by government order. Charles Philipon then turned all his attentions to his sister journal, Le Charivari, which had been founded in 1832.
	In total Grandville created slightly over two hundred lithographs for Philipon. Beatrice Farwell writes, "Grandville's work purported to suggest that the government of Louis-Philippe consumed gold rapaciously, snuffed out liberty, made a farce of justice, and was, in short, no better than the government of Charles X it had replaced. His caricatures express the bitter disappointment many of Grandville's generation felt about the consequences of the Revolution they had supported." *
	These words clearly apply to Le pouvoir use les hommes, (The Service Provided by Men) where cast off citizens are literally put to the grindstone. In the background soldiers and government officials bring more baskets full of sentenced individuals. Large statues of church and state dominate.
	After 1835 Grandville began a second career as a book illustrator. He quickly developed his famous talents for fantasy and anthropomorphic animals and figures. Such fine nineteenth century illustrated books as Gulliver's Travels (1838), Fables of La Fontaine (1841) and Scenes de la vie privee et publique des animaux (1842) are from his hand. Grandville's crowning achievement is the great book, Une Autre monde (Another World), published in 1844.
Reference:	* Beatrice Farwell, The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature, 1816-1848, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1989, pp. 95 - 108. (Quotation, p. 95)
Source:	La caricature (Journal)
Size:	9 1/2 X 11 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $285.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon thick wove paper and with full margins as published in Paris by La Caricature in 1832. Containing the faint, vertical centerfold (as usual) as well as restored marginal tears, which do not enter into the actual lithograph. Signed by Grandville on the stone to the lower left. A finely printed impression and in good condition throughout. Le pouvoir use les hommes represents a prime, original example of the great satirical/fantasy art of Grandville.
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