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Evil flowers and skeletons; Baudelaire and Rops

Les Épaves (1866) by Félicien Rops (detail)

Les Épaves (1866) by Félicien Rops (detail)

For Les Épaves (1866) by French poet Charles Baudelaire, Belgian artist Félicien Rops was commissioned to design a frontispiece based on the Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge as Death[1] woodcut by Jost Amman as found [2] in Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois‘s “danses des morts” essay, where it is erroneously attributed to Hans Sebald Beham.

See Félicien Rops frontispiece in Baudelaire’s ‘Les Épaves’