Bizarre
- Lepic, Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac
- Claeaz, Dancers with Death
- Anonymous American, A Naked Man and Horse
- Klinger, Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Hereafter)
- Surugue, La Folie pare la Décrépitude
- Legros, La Légende du Bonhomme Misère : La Mort dans le Poirier
- Rops, L’Enlèvement
- Sadeler, Allegory of Opulence, Fornication and Stupidity
- Mohlitz, La Vierge aux Étrons (The Virgin of Turds)
- Legrand, Épaves de Famille (Oddballs of the Family)
- Jacquemart, L’Écurueil (sic)
- Benassit, L’Absinthe!
- de Bry, Punishment of the Mutinous Indians
- Goncourt, Le Singe au Miroir (The Monkey at the Mirror)
- Callot, Les Martyrs du Japon
- Dillon, Les Mendiants (The Beggars)
- Barberis, The Witch
- Budzinski, The Thirsty Giant
- Meryon, Le Ministère de la Marine
- Torre-Bueno, Death’s Arrival
- van Meurs, Animals of America
- Redon, Félinerie
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Martin, Indécision (Tête de Femme)
- Rops, Le Calvaire
- Rops, Les Frères de la Bonne Trogne
- Gillray, Tentanda via est qua ve quoque possim Tollere humo
- Underwood, Simian Ecstasy
- Veber, Beheaded!
- Strang, Death and the Ploughman’s Wife: Frontispiece
- Corman, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Bliss, Gargoyles Spouting
- Castellón, Of Land and Sea
- Eichenberg, Isaiah 11
- Rops, L’Idole (The Idol)
- Master MZ, Aristotle and Phyllis
- Bracquemond, “Hors de mon soleil, canailles!"
- Spare, Nemesis
- Higgens, Forgotten
- Anonymous, Jewish Amulet to Protect Mother and Child
- Daumier, Une Expérience Qui Réussit Trop Bien
- Seligmann, Le Roi du Charbon (King Charcoal)
- Braun, The Release of Force
- Callot, Le Grand Rocher
- Forest, Bâstard Foetus Hérédité, Comte D’Averton Mort-Né
- Jacque, La Souricière
- Veber, “Ah! Qu’il fait chaud"
- Pastelot, Les Sorcières
- Lepic, Le Verger du Roi Louis (The Orchard of King Louis)
- Grandville, Résurrection de la Censure
- Tidemann, The Earth Swallows Up the People of Korah
- Shields, The Descent
- Redon, C’est le diable
- Sadeler, Ita Erit et Aventus Filii Hominis
1. Ludovic-Napoléon, Vicomte Lepic (1839-1889) Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac (The Remains of the Noble William of Naillac) |
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Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac (The Remains of the Noble William of Naillac)
Etching, 1861, from Croquis Hollandais et Autres, 236 x 159 mm., Bibliothèque Nationale Inventaire 12. Very fine, rich impression on chine volant with full margins, signed in blue pencil.
Guillaume de Naillac, Lord of Naillac and Gargilesse from 1238 to 1266, was buried in the village of Gargilesse-Dampierre in central France. At some time, and apparently in the sight of Lepic, his tomb was opened, and Lepic recorded in etching the contents. Scribbled into the print are Guillaume’s many honorifics (Prince de Soyons, Chevalier d’Ordre du Roi, Grand Maître de l’Artillerie, etc.) perhaps a somewhat less than subtle reminder of the vanity of worldly titles.