"Our passions are the principal instruments of our preservation. It is, therefore, an enterprise as vain as it is ridiculous to want to destroy them."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1748)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

Two Women by Martin van Maële




Here is a juicily explicit painting by French illustrator Martin van Maële (1863-1926).  This illustration appeared in a 1910 edition of Un été à la campagne: correspondance de deux jeunes parisiennes  by  Gustave Droz (1832-1895), a French writer who was also, coincidentally, an illustrator whose work appeared in La Vie Parisienne.  

Van Maële was from Boulogne in France but worked in Paris and Brussels. He first became well known for doing the illustrations for the French edition of HG Wells' The First Men in the Moon in 1901 but it is his erotic illustrations for which he is best known today.  We will have more of his work in due course.

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