ALMÉRY LOBEL-RICHE | Les bouquinistes du passage

Private collection, France.

Alméry Lobel-Riche was a French painter, engraver and illustrator known for explicit erotic subjects. He illustrated novels and poems by writers such as Baudelaire, Verlaine, Maupassant and Flaubert. The present work is a narrative scene depicting an urban way of life, with a characteristic Parisian passage (arcade) where antiquarians are selling books.