Category: 1890s

Kyōsai’s One Hundred Demons

Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)
Title: Kyōsai hyakki gadan 暁斎百鬼画談 (1889 and 1890 editions)
Publishers: Inokuchi Matsunosuke and Kaishinrō
Medium: Woodblock printed book (gajōsō / orihon, accordion-style binding), ink and color on paper.
image source: The Met and The Arthur Tress Collection at Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
image on top from this edition: Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons. Painted by Kawanabe Tōiku Sensei. August, Meiji 23 (1890)

Anne Branché als “Bet-ti-bo”

Rudolf Krziwanek :: Rollenporträt. Anne Branché als “Bet-ti-bo” in Der Mikado oder Ein Tag in Titipu, um 1890.
Rudolf Krziwanek :: Role portrait. Anne Branché as “Bet-ti-bo” in The Mikado or A Day in Titipu, ca. 1890.
src Theatermuseum Wien

In the Morning, 1894

M. Aublet :: In the Morning. “Décorative panel by M. Aublet, where a nymph, her elbow against a flowering tree and abandoning her innocent and youthful charms to the gaze of two swans” (quoted from source). The Paris Salon of 1894. | src internet archive

Pornokrates (etching), 1896

Félicien Victor Joseph Rops :: Pornokrates or La Dame au cochon, Belgium, 1896. Soft-ground etching. Gift of Michael G. Wilson. Plate: 38.58 x 27.94 cm; image: 27.94 x 18.1 cm. | src LACMA ~ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A Bather, ca. 1893

A Bather (Baigneuse aka Diane sortant de son bain), painted by Guillaume Dubufe (E. Dubufe, Fils), ca. 1893. Paris Salon of 1893. | src internet archive