Martin van Maële

Maurice François Alfred Martin van Miële (12 October 1863 – 5 September 1926), better known by his pseudonym Martin van Maële, was a French illustrator of early 20th century literature. He is renowned for his work in the field of erotic literature.

Family relationships

He was born in the commune of Boulogne sur Seine, once an important industrial town, near Paris, France, to Flemish 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). 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

He worked at Brussels as well as Paris, and his best known work – consisting among other things of an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine's poems – was published in small, secretive editions by publisher Charles Carrington. The prints are considered both humoristic and satirical, sometimes cynical.
Van Maële's career is said to have really begun with his illustrations for H. G. Wells in Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune (or The First Men in the Moon), published by Félix Juven (fr) in 1901.
The title later became the classic 1902 sci-fi silent film called Le Voyage Dans La Lune, 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.^{[citation needed]} He is widely renowned and mostly remembered for his erotic illustrations, two examples of which are on this page.

Bibliography

Collection

The Satyrical Drawings of Martin van Maële.

Drawings

Anatole France, Thaïs, Charles Carrington, Paris, 1901.
Wilhelm Reinhard (translated by Jean de Villiot), La flagellation des femmes en Allemagne, Charles Carrington, 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, Paris, 1902.
Anatole France (translated by A. R. Allinson), The Well of Santa Clara (Le puits de Sainte Claire), Charles Carrington, Paris, 1903.
Jean de Villiot, Dix-sept ans : étude sociale, Charles Carrington, Paris, 1905. Drawings.
Apulée (translated by Jean de Montlyard), L'Âne d'or, Charles Carrington, Paris, 1905. 21 eaux-fortes. New edition by Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1991.
Paul Verlaine, La Trilogie érotique : Amies, Femmes, Hombres, Charles Carrington, Bruxelles, 1907. 15 drawings.
Aimé Van Rod, Nos Belles flagellantes, Paris, 1907. 10 drawings.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Jules Chevrel, Paris, 1908. 20 drawings.
Jules Michelet, La Sorcière, Jules Chevrel, Paris, 1911. New edition by Jean de Bonnot, 1987.
Edgar Allan Poe (translated by Charles Baudelaire, Dix contes, Librairie Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1912. 95 engravings by Eugène Dété.
Denis Diderot, 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.
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 de Jusange, La Comtesse au fouet, Jean Fort, Paris, 1926. 7 drawings.
Docteur 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.
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.

La Grande Danse macabre des vifs (1905)

Dessins de Martin van Maele. Couverture d'un des quatres dizains de La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, 1905.

Dessins de Martin van Maele. Illustration de La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, 1905.

Martin van Maële (Boulogne-sur-Seine, 12 ottobre 1863 – Varennes-Jarcy, 5 settembre 1926) è stato un illustratore francese.

Maurice François Alfred Martin van Miële, meglio conosciuto con lo pseudonimo Martin van Maële, è stato un artista francese specializzato in illustrazioni erotiche, tra i più famosi agli inizi del XX secolo.

Vita

Nasce il 12 ottobre 1863 nel comune di Boulogne-sur-Seine (oggi Boulogne-Billancourt), un tempo importante centro industriale nei pressi di Parigi.
I suoi genitori erano Virginie Mathilde Jeanne van Maële e Louis Alfred Martin (lui stesso incisore e poi insegnante presso l'Accademia di belle arti di Ginevra). Il suo pseudonimo, Martin van Maële, è una combinazione tra il nome da nubile della madre e il cognome del padre. A volte viene anche usato lo pseudonimo A. Van Troizem. Sposa Marie Françoise Genet, senza avere figli.
Muore il 5 settembre 1926, all'età di 62 anni, e viene sepolto nel cimitero di Varennes-Jarcy.

Carriera

Attivo tra il 1901 al 1926, ha lavorato principalmente a Bruxelles e a Parigi. Inizia la sua carriera illustrando I primi uomini sulla Luna di H. G. Wells, pubblicato da Félix Juven. L'anno seguente illustra alcune copertine di avventure di Sherlock Holmes, pubblicate dallo stesso editore. Sempre nel 1901, inizia a lavorare per l'editore erotico Charles Carrington, illustrando opere di letteratura sadomaso, ma anche di Anatole France e di Apuleio.
Van Maële pubblica, nel 1905, un'opera più personale: La Grande Danse macabre des vifs (La Grande Danza macabra dei vivi), composta da quattro serie di dieci illustrazioni satiriche ed umoristiche, nelle quali la sessualità viene mostrata come il primo presagio della morte.
Dopo l'espulsione dalla Francia di Carrington, nel 1907, inizia a lavorare per Jules Chevrel ed illustra opere di Choderlos de Laclos, Diderot e Michelet. Dal 1909 al 1919, probabilmente a causa della guerra, van Maële pubblica solamente cinque libri. Dal 1920 lavora con Jean Fort, continuando ad illustrare classici della letteratura erotica (Aretino, Verlaine, Sorel, ecc.).
Van Maële morì nel 1926, mentre finiva di illustrare alcune opere di Aretino.

Dessins de Martin van Maële. Illustration du Thais d'Anatole France. 1901.

Français : alors tu y as été souvent au bordel

English: so, you've been often at the brothel

Русский: так, вы часто были в борделе

Português: então, já foste muitas vezes ao bordel

La Grande Danse macabre des vifs 1905

Français : Lutinage

English: Pixies Play

Dessins de Martin van Maele. Illustration de La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, 1905.

Presto agitato, M. Georges

Dessin de Martin van Maële Illustration de La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, 1905.

"Oh old bastard, I'll give you some good sweets"

Martin van Maële - Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs 1905

Trilogie érotique II ~ Illustration of a poem by Paul Verlaine. 1907 via

Martin van Maële

Original illustration for 'La Trilogie érotique' par Paul Verlaine (Amies - Femmes - Hombres)

Martin van Maële

from “De Sceleribus et Criminibus” first published in 1908

Martin van Maële

De Sceleribus et Criminibus — (Martin van Maele, 1908) "she succ me"

Erotic illustration by Martin Van Maele from “De Sceleribus et Criminibus” first published in 1908 as part of a set of 11 colour lithographs

Les Liaisons dangereuses par Choderlos de Laclos illustrées par Martin Van Maele (1908).

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Martin van Maële. Illustration de La sorcière, de Jules Michelet. 1911.

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Les premiers Hommes dans la Lune

Martin van Maële

Eau-forte érotique de Martin Van Maele pour les Amours d'Ovide

Paris, Chevrel, 1913

La Religieuse (illus. Martin van Maele): Diderot, Denis

1916

Eau-forte érotique de Martin Van Maele pour Un été à la campagne

de Gustave Droz. Vers 1920

Eau-forte érotique de Martin Van Maele pour Les gaietés de Béranger;

A Eleuthéropolis, à l'enseigne de Cupidon, s.d. [vers 1920]

Martin Van Maele. Illustration extraite de 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. de Charles Sorel. Jean Fort, Paris, 1925.

Dessin de Martin van Maele. Dans le coin en bas à gauche, il est indiqué "Punition des feignantes qui veulent travailler". Sur la bannière brandie par les manifestants, il est écrit "Mort aux exploiteurs".

English: Punishment of those too lazy to want to work.