{"id":15673,"date":"2014-09-03T01:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15673"},"modified":"2014-09-03T04:12:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T03:12:19","slug":"raphael-drouarts-fleurs-du-mal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/03\/raphael-drouarts-fleurs-du-mal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapha\u00ebl Drouart’s Fleurs du Mal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems to be Fleurs du Mal<\/em> Week here. Rapha\u00ebl Drouart (1884\u20131972) was another French artist who specialised in woodcut illustrations. The pictures here are from a 1923 edition of Les Fleurs du Mal<\/em> found on an auction site.<\/p>\n

Despite (or because of) the scandalous nature of Baudelaire’s poetry, there are many illustrated editions of this particular collection, not all of them by artists suited to the material. This is often a common fate of those books whose popularity makes them a magnet for illustrators. One thing the various editions do have in common is the portrait of the poet as a frontispiece, although even there the author of Spleen<\/em><\/a> can be made to look dopey or silly. By contrast, Rapha\u00ebl Drouart captures the familiar scowl well enough, and also fares better than many when it comes to the poems. The combination of woodcuts and skeletons is reminiscent of Posada’s calaveras<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Tony George-Roux\u2019s Fleurs du Mal<\/a>
\n\u2022 Percy Walter Wolff\u2019s Die Vorh\u00f6lle<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Mario Laboccetta<\/a>
\n\u2022 Carlos Schwabe\u2019s Fleurs du Mal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems to be Fleurs du Mal Week here. Rapha\u00ebl Drouart (1884\u20131972) was another French artist who specialised in woodcut illustrations. The pictures here are from a 1923 edition of Les Fleurs du Mal found on an auction site. Despite (or because of) the scandalous nature of Baudelaire’s poetry, there are many illustrated editions of … Continue reading “Rapha\u00ebl Drouart’s Fleurs du Mal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,48],"tags":[2346,6414],"class_list":["post-15673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-charles-baudelaire","tag-raphael-drouart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-44N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}