Les Metamorphoses du Jour is an original lithography artwork, hand-colored realized by Jean-Jacques Grandville in the XIX century, titled at the top, N. 43, with the description on the lower. Signed on the plate.

Sheet dimension: 24 x 33 cm.

In very good conditions.

The artwork represents men with animal's head through precise and soft strokes, Grandville masterly satirizes the vices of modern society by substituting human heads with animals by congruous harmonious color. Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847) known by the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques or J. J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist. Grandville's ability for political provocation made his work with great impact. He worked in a wide variety of formats, from his first job illustrating the parlor game Old Maid, to illustrated newspaper strips of which he was a master. Though the designs of Grandville are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display the keen analysis of character and marvelous inventive ingenuity, and his humor is always tempered and refined by the delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness.