Cleveland Museum of Art
The Relics
Jean-Jacques Grandville
- Date
- c. 1835
- Medium
- pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, heightened with white and red-orange gouache with scoring on wove paper
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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. This drawing illustrated Les Reliques , a song written in the voice of the skeleton seen in the image.
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