Un concert à mitraille et Berlioz: caricature tirée de "Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'une position sociale"

Grandville, J. J. (1803-1847)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1845

Height:

16.0 cm  (6 5/16 in.)

Width:

12.5 cm  (4 15/16 in.)

Given measurements referre to the printing plate; measurements of the entire folio: 18,5 cm (height) x 14 cm (width).

Technique / Medium:

woodcut on paper

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

Additional titles

Description

The caricature depicts Hector Berlioz conducting an orchestra including a cannon. The caricature was published in the French periodical L'Illustration in 1845.

People as subjects

Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) (Composer as performer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tuba [4467]
Kettledrum [2887]
Trombone [4369]
Valve horn [4133]
Double bass [3111]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Massip, Catherine, and Cécile Reynaud, ed. Berlioz: La voix du romantisme (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fayard, 2003).

Braam, Gunther, ed., The portraits of Hector Berlioz. New Berlioz Edition, vol. 26 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2003).

Renonciat, Annie. La vie et l’œuvre de J.J. Grandville (Paris: ARC Edition-Vilo, 1985).

Grandville, J. J. Bizarreries and fantasies of Grandville: 266 illustrations from Un autre monde and Les animaux. Introd. and commentary by Stanley Appelbaum (New York: Dover Publications, 1974).

RIdIM record id

1582