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GRANDVILLE, J.-J.
Les Fleurs Animees.
A magnificently illustrated and hand-coloured "nouvelle édition" of Grandville's splendid work re-imagining flowers as stylish Parisian women. Fashion, art, and botany meld in the execution of these images, wherein women show off garments fantastically shaped by scientifically accurate flowers.
- Published
- Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.
- References
- Gordon Ray Art of the French Illustrated books 198;
- Plates
- 52
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.
- Ref
- 160
Two Volumes. 4to publisher's green morocco binding, blocked in blind, spine decorated in gilt, title in gilt to spine, moire end-papers, and all edges gilt. Light wear to joints of the first volume but a fine set, relatively uncommon in the publisher's deluxe binding and with the plates and text clean and not foxed. FIRST EDITION (second issue) with separate pagination of the two parts. Two unsigned plates in the introduction by Alphonse Karr are entitled "Botanique des Dames" and "Horticulture des Dames." Adorable women are dressed in the leaves and petals of a particular flower or plant and their pose or in the details of the background with attendant animals. Gordon Ray Art of the French Illustrated books 198: " A little world is created governed by its own laws"... His first biographer wrote: "the Fleurs Animees are the very thought of Granville; they were his favourite work the work into the execution of which he put all that was in him of poetic and gracious originality of dexterity of mind and observation of that prodigious perspicacity which made divine affinities hitherto unperceived by anyone and discover new worlds." Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Title page. 2. Bleuet et Coquelicot. 3. Lis. 4. Pensee. 5. Tabac. 6. Tulipe. 7. Rose. 8. Narcisse. 9. Violette. 10. Nenuphar. 11. Myrte. 12. Laurier. 13. Marguerite. 14. Camelia. 15. Immortelle. 16. Chevre-Feuille. 17. Belle-de Nuit. 18. Oeillet. 19. Cigue. 20. Soleil. 21. Fleur de Grenadier. 22. Lin. 23. Eglantine. 24. Pavot. 25. Chardon. 26. Fleur D'Oranger. 27. Capucine. 28. Guimauve. 29. Primevere Perce-Neige. Volume 2. 30. Title page. 31. Pois de Senteur. 32. Cactus. 33. Dahlia. 34. Sensitive. 35. Fleur de Pecher. 36. Aubepine. 37. Vigne. 38. Myosotis. 39. Jasmin. 40. Scabieuse et Souci. 41. Traite des Fleurs. 42. Fleche-D'Eau. 43. Hortensia Couronne Imperiale. 44. Verveine. 45. Giroflee. 46. The et Cafe. 47.Lilas. 48. Tubereuse Jonquille. 49. Bal. (Campanule / Fuchsia / Pied d'Alouette / Muguet / Pyramide / Liseron). 50. Retour des Fleurs. 51. Erratum. 52. Pervenche Dessechee.
