Georges Rochegrosse , Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1917, F. Ferroud. Original cover bound in.
Illustration: -the original cover
-the title page with a portrait of Baudelaire
-6 full page engravings, introducing each section.
Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse ( 1859-1938) was a French painter, decorator, illustrator, and engraver. He was born to Élise Marie Bourotte (1828-1904) and Jules Jean Baptiste Rochegrosse, who died in 1874. In 1875, his mother remarried, this time to the poet Théodore de Banville, whose adopted son Georges-Antoine became. He frequented the artists and writers his stepfather entertained at his home: Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, and Gustave Flaubert. At the beginning of his career, he practiced history painting and experimented with Symbolism. He then turned to Orientalism after discovering Algeria in 1894, where he met Marie Leblon, whom he married in 1896. He settled permanently in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1900. After the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920, his painting took on a more pessimistic, almost religious tone. His body was transferred and buried in Paris at the Montparnasse Cemetery, a stone's throw from the tomb of Théodore de Banville. ( Wikipedia )
