Artwork
Metamorphoses of the Day: A Conventional Marriage
Metamorphoses of the Day: A Conventional Marriage is an ink print by the Romanticist artist Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville. It dates from 1829 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
Metamorphoses of the Day: A Conventional Marriage is a hand-colored lithograph created by Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville in 1829.
Subject & Meaning
The print depicts two anthropomorphic creatures by a pond, satirizing human behavior in relationships. A man-like figure with a bird's beak and a woman with a swan's head, dressed in 19th-century attire, engage in leisure activities, hinting at the conventions of marriage.
Technique & Style
The artwork is a lithograph, a printmaking technique, on wove paper, and features hand-coloring. Grandville employed anthropomorphism, attributing human characteristics to animals, to comment on societal norms, a common device in this style of art.
Artist & collection
Nouveaux chapeaux de dames ...
Et on appelle ça descendre le fleuve de la vie...
Ah! Laisse-moi donc voir
Mariez-vous donc ... en chine
H Beard Print Collection
Heur et Malheur, ou la Cruche cassée
Tiens... notre jardin... produit des perdreaux!...
Les Ecrevisses à Longchamps
Le fil d'Ariane
Avantages des terrasses italiennes...