The Relics
Medium
pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, heightened with white and red-orange gouache with scoring on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11.8 × 9.4 cm · mounted: 20.6 × 16.5 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2018.1065
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.