Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period.
Grandville’s characters have a human body and an animal face. The first edition was a roaring success and quickly went out-of-print. An edition was prepared in 1854, featured wood-engraved reproductions of Grandville’s original lithographs and accompanying text.
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