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Pierre Grassou

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167:, where the Vervelle mansion is garishly decorated, and also includes a large collection of Grassou’s work, including the forgery of a Titian. Grassou recognizes his own mediocrity, but when it is discovered by the Vervelles that the forgeries in their home were painted by Grassou, “far from denting his reputation, multiples Grassou’s value as an artist” and as a son-in-law, since Vervelle believes Grassou to possess all the combined talent of 27: 182:
Despite his advantageous marriage, Grassou remains regretful that he is not a true artist. “This painter, a good father and a good husband, is unable to eradicate from his heart a fatal thought, namely, that artists laugh at his work; that his name is a term of contempt in the studios; and that the
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Sylvia Raphael wrote that the story "... contains amusing caricature of the bourgeois attitude to art, a good-natured portrait of the mediocre but financially successful painter, and a dig at the crafty trickery of the art dealer who trades on the vanity of the bourgeois, and the financial need of
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Monsieur Vervelle, a prosperous bottle-dealer obsessed with art, is introduced to Grassou by Magus, who introduces the painter as a grand master. Vervelle and his wife are enchanted with Grassou and believe he would make a good match for their daughter Virginie.
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is a mediocre and unoriginal painter who lives off painting imitative works commissioned by an old swindler and art-dealer named Elias Magus. Grassou paints works in the style of
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take no notice of his pictures. But he still works on; he aims for the
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Balzac and the model of painting: artist stories in La Comédie humaine
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Honoré de Balzac
La Comédie humaine
Fiction
French
Honoré de Balzac
novel sequence
La Comédie humaine
Fougères
Titian
Rembrandt
Petite bourgeoisie
Ville-d'Avray
Rubens
Rembrandt
Terburg
feuilletons
Academy
Penguin Classics
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
Pierre Grassou 
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Wikisource
Penguin Classics
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La Comédie humaine
Honoré de Balzac
List of titles

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