Belle Époque erotica illustration
The Illustrated Hour
Desire drawn with a couturier’s line.
The crown of the shelf. Gerda Wegener’s rococo lovers, the acid wit of Félicien Rops, Achille Devéria’s lithographs — the salon’s polish brought to the locked drawer. Von Bayros appears only where the universal gate passes; where it does not, the plate simply isn’t here.
1890s–1930Risqué / NudeIllustration-led
