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Maurice François Alfred Martin van Miële (12 October 1863 – 5 September 1926), better known by his
pseudonym
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Martin van Maële, was a French illustrator of early 20th century literature
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, particularly erotic literature
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.
Family relationships
Van Maële was born in the commune of Boulogne sur Seine, once an important industrial town, nearParis
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, France, to Flemish
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mother Virginie Mathilde Jeanne van Maële and French father Louis Alfred Martin (himself an engraver and later a teacher at the Beaux-Arts school in Geneva
, neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier
, website = https://www.geneve.ch/
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). His pseudonym, Martin van Maële, is a combination of his mother's maiden name and his father's surname. He also sometimes used the pseudonym A. Van Troizem.
He married Marie Françoise Genet; the couple had no children. He died on 5 September 1926, aged 62, and was interred in the cemetery of Varennes-Jarcy.
Life and career
Van Maële worked atBrussels
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as well as Paris
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, and his best known work – an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the '' fin de siècle'' in international and ...
's poems – was published in small, secretive editions by publisher Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
. The prints are considered humorous and satirical, and sometimes cynical
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.
Van Maële's career is said to have begun in earnest with his illustrations for H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells"Wells, H. G."
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Martin van Maële
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The First Men in the Moon
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''), published by in 1901.
The title inspired the classic 1902 sci-fi
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silent film
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called ''Le Voyage Dans La Lune
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'', produced by Georges Méliès. Van Maële also illustrated Anatole France's '' Thais'', published by Charles Carrington, also in 1901. The following year, and occasionally thereafter, van Maële worked as an illustrator for the Félix Juven's French translations of the Sherlock Holmes series. He is mostly remembered for his erotic illustrations.
Bibliography
Collection
*''The Satyrical Drawings of Martin van Maële''.Drawings
*Anatole France
(; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie França ...
, ''Thaïs'', Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Paris, 1901.
* Wilhelm Reinhard (translated by Jean de Villiot), ''La flagellation des femmes en Allemagne'', Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Paris, 1901. 20 drawings.
* Margaret Anson (translated by Jean de Villiot), ''Une société de flagellantes. Réminiscences et révélations d’une soubrette de grande maison...'', Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Paris, 1902.
*Anatole France
(; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie França ...
(translated by A. R. Allinson), ''The Well of Santa Clara'' (''Le puits de Sainte Claire''), Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Paris, 1903.
* Jean de Villiot, ''Dix-sept ans : étude sociale'', Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Paris, 1905. Drawings.
* Apulée (translated by Jean de Montlyard), '' L'Âne d'or'', Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Paris, 1905. 21 eaux-fortes. New edition by Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1991.
*Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the '' fin de siècle'' in international and ...
, ''La Trilogie érotique : Amies, Femmes, Hombres'', Charles Carrington
Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...
, Bruxelles, 1907. 15 drawings.
* Aimé Van Rod, ''Nos Belles flagellantes'', Paris, 1907. 10 drawings.
*Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (; 18 October 1741 – 5 September 1803) was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel '' Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (''Dangerous Liaisons'' ...
, ''Les Liaisons dangereuses
''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (; English: ''Dangerous Liaisons'') is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782.
It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and ...
'', Jules Chevrel, Paris, 1908. 20 drawings.
* Jules Michelet, ''La Sorcière'', Jules Chevrel, Paris, 1911. New edition by Jean de Bonnot, 1987.
*Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...
(translated by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...
, ''Dix contes'', Librairie Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1912. 95 engravings by Eugène Dété.
*Denis Diderot, ''La Religieuse (novel), La Religieuse'', Jules Chevrel, Paris 1916.
*Sadinet, ''Petites cousines : souvenirs érotiques d'un homme de qualité touchant les jolies petites cousines... les bonnes à tout faire... les femmes du monde et les belles filles de province'', À la folie du jour (Jean Fort), 1919. Drawings attributed to Van Maële.
*Claude de Saint-Hieble, ''L'Instrument des apothécaires'', Jean Fort, coll. « Les Amis du bon vieux temps », Paris, 1920.
*Edmond Haraucourt, ''La Légende des sexes'', Au Clos Bruneau, Paris, 1921. 12 gravings.
*François Béroalde de Verville, ''Le Moyen de parvenir'', Jean Fort, Paris, 1921. 18 coloured drawings and 65 small drawings.
*Pascal Pia, Pierre Fély, ''Les Princesses de Cythère, chronique libertine de l'histoire.'', Jean Fort, coll. « Les Amis du bon vieux temps », Paris, 1922.
*Charles Sorel, ''L'Histoire comique de Francion. En laquelle sont découvertes les plus subtiles finesses et trompeuses inventions tant des hommes que des femmes de toutes sortes de conditions et d’âges.'', Jean Fort, Paris, 1925. 17 drawings and 16 compositions.
*Pierre Mac Orlan, Pierre de Jusange, ''La Comtesse au fouet'', Jean Fort, Paris, 1926. 7 drawings.
*Docteur Pierre Mac Orlan, Gastien Fowler, ''Maison des flagellations'', Jean Fort, Collection des Orties Blanches, Paris, 1926.
*Pierre l'Arétin, ''Dialogues'', Jean Fort, 1927. 66 drawings and 10 drawings. Van Maële died while the drawings were being made, so some are by Luc Lafnet.
*Ovide, ''Les amours; L'art d'aimer; Les Héroïdes; Les remèdes d'amour; Les cosmétiques'', Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 2000.
*Arthur Conan Doyle, Conan Doyle, ''Aventures Extraordinaires'', 15 drawings, Librairie Félix Juven, Paris, 1902.
Others
*Martin van Maële, ''La Grande Danse macabre des vifs'', Charles Carrington, 1905. 40 drawings. New edition by Déesse, Nanterre, 1980. *Martin van Maële, ''The satyrical drawings of Martin van Maële'', Cythera Press, New York, 1970. *Luc Binet, ''Martin Van Maele ou le diable se cache dans les détails. Catalogue raisonné'', Humus, Lausanne, 2017.See also
*Louis LegrandReferences
External links
* The Erotica BibliophilMartin van Maële
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vanmaele, Martin French illustrators French erotic artists French people of Flemish descent People from Boulogne-Billancourt 1863 births 1926 deaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing