Martin van Maële

An illustration by Martin van Maele: La Grande danse macabre des vifs

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 Little is known about the life of Martin van Maële. He worked at Brussels as well as Paris, and his best known work – consisting among other things of an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine’s poems – was published in small, secretive editions by publisher Charles Carrington.

Slaying the Mighty Peen

Slaying the Mighty Peen: à L. Cranach

 Van Maële’s career is said to have really began with his illustrations for H. G. Wells in Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune (or The First Men in the Moon), published by Felix Juven in 1901.

à Boileau Despreaux

These are all from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs (1905.)

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You can find the rest of them here.

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