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Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specialises in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.

While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum calibre, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.

Les Fleures Animees

An extract of our prints currently available:

GrandeVille J.I.I. Les Fleures Animées.

Grandeville Myosotis

Myosotis 
C. Geoffrai after Jean Ignace Isidore GrandeVille (Gérard)
Hand tinted lithograph. from Les Fleures Animées Paris 1846 Edited by Garnier
Matted Glazed Gilt-wood frame  6 3/4 x 4 1/2 (17.2 x 11.4 cm.)   Frame:14 1/2 x 11 3/4"
 Ref, JJ4 (176) / EL / o.ando > OL
A charming allegorical animated flower girl

 

Grandeville Eglantine

Eglantine  
C. Geoffrai after Jean Ignace Isidore GrandeVille (Gérard)
Hand tinted lithograph. from Les Fleures Animées Paris 1846 Edited by Garnier
Matted Glazed Gilt-wood frame  6 3/4 x 4 1/2 (17.2 x 11.4 cm.)   Frame:14 1/2 x 11 3/4"
 Ref, JJ5 (176) / EL /o.ando >OL

Two charming images From "Les Fleurs Animees.". First published in two volumes (first edition 1846), this collection of romantic tales by Taxile Delord, editor of the satirical newspaper "Le Charivari," was illustrated with hand-coloured engravings by the famous French caricaturist, J.J. Grandville.
In Grandville's engravings, flowers are transformed into many types of women - village girls, ballerinas, nuns, nurses, queens, etc. often dressed in comical versions of contemporary fashion. "Le Fleurs Aminees," was highly acclaimed upon its publication. 

This brilliant assembly of the Court of Flora has all the elements of Romantic ballet, with its highly conventionalized poses, fanciful costumes, and magical settings. To these Grandville has playfully added attendant beetles, crickets, butterflies, moths, and caterpillars, those diminutive inhabitants of the garden, in variant agressive or sycophant roles.
Of all his work, this is his most graceful fantasy: the fifty-two plates of court beauties in floral haute couture present a suite of fashionable tableaux; redolent of the sentimental spirit of French Romanticism, at the end of the July Monarchy and in the predawn of the Second Empire. 

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847), generally known by the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques or J. J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist. The name "Grandville" was his grandparents' professional stage name. Grandville received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a painter of miniatures. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Paris, and soon afterwards published a collection of lithographs entitled Les Tribulations de la petite proprieté. One of Grandville's supreme achievements, at a time when French printing technology was ascendant, was Les Fleurs Animées, a series of images that are both poetic and satirical.