'Pierre Grassou'' - is a work by the French writer, one of the founders of realism in European Literature H. de Balzac (1799 - 1850). The basis of the work - is the story of the talentless artist Pierre Grassou. The author makes fun of his lack of talent, laughs at bourgeois art with its vulgarity and hatred against the real talent, which with difficulty paves the way for itself, for the sake of profit and greediness.