The Relics
Jean Jacques Grandville
1830–1840
- Medium
- pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, heightened with white and red-orange gouache with scoring on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11.8 x 9.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in.); Mounted: 20.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Drawings
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 19th century
About
Grandville was known for the many illustrations he contributed to books and periodicals, often in a creative, fantastic style. This drawing relates to an image that appeared in an 1835 edition of the popular songwriter Pierre Jean de Béranger’s complete works. It accompanied the lyrics to a macabre song entitled Les Reliques, written in the voice of the skeleton who appears in the image.
