File:Jean-Jacques Grandville - An Insect Ball - 2008.345 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this JPG preview of this TIF file: 800 × 475 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 190 pixels | 640 × 380 pixels | 1,024 × 608 pixels | 1,280 × 760 pixels | 2,560 × 1,521 pixels | 6,492 × 3,856 pixels.
Original file (6,492 × 3,856 pixels, file size: 71.64 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary
[edit]An Insect Ball
(   ) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
Jean-Jacques Grandville |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
An Insect Ball |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | drawing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
J.-J. Grandville became best known for fantastical drawings like this one, in which insects act like humans. Here, smaller creatures above use flowers or leaves as musical instruments, and their larger counterparts below dance a galop. An Insect Ball was one of more than 50 drawings that the artist made for wood-engraved reproduction in Le Magasin pittoresque (The Picturesque Store), a popular encyclopedic review edited by Grandville's friend Edouard Charton. In text printed below the wood-engraved version of An Insect Ball, Grandville explained that his aim was to show insects with the same humorous personalities seen at any human ball, while also rendering their forms with scientific accuracy. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1835 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Pen and black ink with watercolor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Sheet: 12.5 x 21.3 cm (4 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location |
Drawings |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
2008.345 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of creation | France, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Bequest of Muriel Butkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.345 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
[edit] 
|
This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
| The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
|
|
This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 00:45, 8 March 2019 |  | 6,492 × 3,856 (71.64 MB) | Madreiling (talk | contribs) | pattypan 18.02 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on www.wikidata.org