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Memoires de Casanova by Paul-Émile Bécat

Memoires de Casanova – a Complete Deck of Playing Cards by Paul-Émile Bécat

Paul-Émile Bécat (1885–1960) was the most prolific artist to grace the genre of erotic art. He is credited with over ninety different suites of illustrations and engravings that accompanied both major and minor erotic texts.

Bécat was born and grew up in Paris and studied at l’École de Beaux-Arts, first exhibiting at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Bécat was an accomplished painter. He exhibited regularly, specializing in portraiture, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920.

This set of playing cards illustrating the Memoires de Casanova was produced in 1960.

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