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Like the latter two, the painter and illustrator Ernest Henri Griset, who was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1843 and fled with his parents to England as a child in 1848 from the revolutionary turmoil, made a good name for himself throughout Great Britain as a young man with humorous and satirical drawings of the animals in the London Zoo as well as his Christmas books "Griset's Grotesques" and an illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables from 1869. The critics were full of praise for Griset's thoroughly successful and extremely funny illustrations, which gave his animals a great deal of human expression without robbing them of their identity and making a mockery of them. The almost completely "anglified" Frenchman was also very good at marketing his own person and performance. As a short-term employee of the two satirical magazines "Fun" and "Punch", which were immensely successful at the time, he had an obituary and a benevolent obituary of his work published in the London Times in July 1877 in order to boost sales of his pictures.
In fact, Griset was to live for almost another thirty years, however, and with his always vital, original and anthropomorphic caricatures of scrawny birds, cunning foxes and expert monkeys, as well as giraffes and tiny little mice that seem to grow beyond the edge of the picture, he would continue to inspire new followers of his great art. In spite of all the comedy and imaginative reconstruction, Griset's paintings are always inspired by the anatomical understanding of the precisely working natural scientist. The 19 bizarre watercolors commissioned by the ethnographer Sir John Lubbock with scenes of prehistoric humans in conflict with mammoths and other extinct creatures, some of which are now on display in the Bromley Museum in London's Orpington district, are also considered true masterpieces. Works of Ernest Griset, who had to feed a big family during his life and who never really prospered despite of his fame, are also exposed in the Victoria and Albert Museum at the Cromwell Road in the city district Kensington in the west of London.
The fable as a short, concise and morally instructive narrative and saga, in which animals, plants and mixed creatures or objects possess certain human characteristics, which are treated in a mostly humorous and satirical way, has demonstrably existed as a literary and artistic genre for 5,000 years. The oldest fables written in prose or verse and painted as pictures come from Egypt, Anatolia, Arabia and India as well as the Levant and Mesopotamia. A well-known and important founder of ancient fable poetry in Europe is above all the Greek poet Aesop, whose animalistic parables from the 6th century B.C. after the invention of letterpress printing in the middle of the 15th century also found widespread use in many places in the form of magnificent woodcut illustrations. Written and drawn fables remained popular with the public throughout Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. The most widely read fable poets of this period were or are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Christian August Fischer as well as Ignacy Krasicki, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian and Pierre Lachambeaudie.
Like the latter two, the painter and illustrator Ernest Henri Griset, who was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1843 and fled with his parents to England as a child in 1848 from the revolutionary turmoil, made a good name for himself throughout Great Britain as a young man with humorous and satirical drawings of the animals in the London Zoo as well as his Christmas books "Griset's Grotesques" and an illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables from 1869. The critics were full of praise for Griset's thoroughly successful and extremely funny illustrations, which gave his animals a great deal of human expression without robbing them of their identity and making a mockery of them. The almost completely "anglified" Frenchman was also very good at marketing his own person and performance. As a short-term employee of the two satirical magazines "Fun" and "Punch", which were immensely successful at the time, he had an obituary and a benevolent obituary of his work published in the London Times in July 1877 in order to boost sales of his pictures.
In fact, Griset was to live for almost another thirty years, however, and with his always vital, original and anthropomorphic caricatures of scrawny birds, cunning foxes and expert monkeys, as well as giraffes and tiny little mice that seem to grow beyond the edge of the picture, he would continue to inspire new followers of his great art. In spite of all the comedy and imaginative reconstruction, Griset's paintings are always inspired by the anatomical understanding of the precisely working natural scientist. The 19 bizarre watercolors commissioned by the ethnographer Sir John Lubbock with scenes of prehistoric humans in conflict with mammoths and other extinct creatures, some of which are now on display in the Bromley Museum in London's Orpington district, are also considered true masterpieces. Works of Ernest Griset, who had to feed a big family during his life and who never really prospered despite of his fame, are also exposed in the Victoria and Albert Museum at the Cromwell Road in the city district Kensington in the west of London.
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