Jean Ignace Isidore GRANDVILLE (Nancy 1803 - Vanves 1847) A montage of two drawings: Enfants jouant autour d'un matelas / Le Coq invalide Pen and brown ink over black pencil lines. The first is signed lower left. Numbered upper left on reverse of mount "G205". Cartel bottom center on mount "J.J.Granville". (Slightly oiled, small stains and small folds). 11x11.5cm; 11.5x6cm Our drawing "Le Coq invalide" is preparatory to the engraving "Ayant dit, ce pauvre invalide nous fait la révérence, et s'en va clopi clopant" illustrating the book Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux: études de mœurs contemporaines. Vol. 1 / published under the direction of M. P.-J. Stahl; vignettes by Grandville; with the collaboration of Messieurs de Balzac, L. Baude, E. de La Bédollière, P. Bernard, J. Janin, Ed. Lemoine, Charles Nodier, George Sand published by J. Hetzel et Paulin in Paris in 1842 on page 42.