Antoine Monnier disciple de Baudelaire et de Méryon

Starving artist, poète maudit and engraver Antoine Monnier was born in Lyon in 1846. His “livre d’artiste” entitled Eaux-fortes et rêves creux: sonnets excentriques et poëmes étranges, illustrated with his etchings, appeared in 1873, a year before the publication of the first “livre de peintre”: Le Fleuve by Manet and Cros. A brief presentation of Eaux-fortes, Le Haschisch: contes en prose, sonnets et poëmes fantaisistes (1877) and Ève et ses incarnations: sonnets et eaux-fortes (1878) will show that the richness of Monnier’s work extends well beyond his debt to Baudelaire and Méryon and, as such, is worthy of further study.  (in French)

Judd D. Hubert
Volume 44.1-2