Erotic Art

La Trilogie Érotique de Paul Verlaine is a suite of fifteen etchings created by Martin van Maële in 1907 to illustrate La Trilogie érotique : Amies, Femmes, Hombres by Paul Verlaine.

Illustrations for Mémoires de Fanny Hill – A portfolio of 29 illustrations, 18 in full color and 11 in red Conté crayon.

Histoire de Dom Bougre is an erotic French novel from 1741 about an older man looking back on his love life.

FavoriteCuir & Peau by Rene Giffey Cuir & Peau translates to ‘Leather & Skin’. This set of 21 illustrations is from 1934, and depicts fetish punishment with a great deal …

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Illustrations for Gamiani – This portfolio of twelve colored plates by Achille Devéria (1800-1857) were included in the first edition of Gamiani, ou une nuit d’excès (Gamiani, or A Night of Excess) in 1833.

Autour de l’amour (All About Love)  is a collection of twenty-seven erotic drawings by ‘Eugène Reunier’ from 1925.

Zehn Erotische Aquarelle by Peter Geiger – a portfolio of ten erotic watercolors printed in 1909 in a limited edition of 530.

In 1906, Paul Avril was commissioned to illustrate a new French edition of De Figuris Veneris.  This project was a milestone in erotic illustration.

Bordell was printed in 1924 in an edition of thirty copies with ten prints in each. Each print was hand colored with crayon. It shows scenes from a brothel, presumably in Berlin.