You may remember several posts about Grandville, a French artist of the early nineteenth century, who published several collections of caricatures satirizing the bourgeoisie. These were lithographs printed in black and white, and hand colored after printing, from a collection called Les Metamorphoses du Jour (The Transformations of the Day). Some of them require some context, or the availability of the text, and better French than I possess, but some are interpretable off the bat. Today’s is pretty straightforward and very cute/fun.
I assume the choice of the animal head for the teacher was very deliberate and a very broad joke. Enjoy!
Les metamorphoses du jour (Lithograph, hand colored, 1829)
