Eugène GUILLAUMOT (wood-engraver), J.J. GRANDVILLE (draughtsman)
The ‘rentier’ and his wife
(Le Rentier et sa femme)
(1840)
illustration for Monographie du rentier (Monograph of the Rentier) by Honoré de Balzac and J. J. Grandville, in Les Français peints par eux-mêmes (The French Painted by Themselves), vol. 3, published by Léon Curmer, Paris, 1840–42

Medium
hand-coloured wood-engraving

Measurements
13.5 × 10.1 cm (image) 25.7 × 17.1 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Printing/Publishing
published by Léon Curmer, Paris

Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: JJG
printed in ink l.c.: GUILLAUMOT / LE RENTIER ET SA FEMME.

Accession Number
1298-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire

Subjects (specific)
caricatures couples dog (species) hats men (male humans) walking women (female humans)