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Ecole de Natation (Swimming School) from the series Les metamorphoses du jour
Not on view
Grandville's ability to render naturalism rivaled that of any scientifically inclined artist, Grandville used animal-human hybrid forms to critique human behavior. He based the animal portions of these creatures on the zoological illustrations in Buffon's Histoire naturelle (1749-1788).
- Artist
- Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard)
- Printer
- Langlumé
- Publishers
- Martinet-Hautecoeur, Antoine Bulla
- Title
- Ecole de Natation (Swimming School) from the series Les metamorphoses du jour
- Date
- 1829
- Object Type
- Medium
- lithograph with hand coloring
- Dimensions
- Image: 194 x 291 mm (7 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 263 x 352 mm (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund
- Accession Number
- 1982.1.26
