Alméry Lobel-Riche
4 albums/30 artworks – Alméry Lobel-Riche (1877 – 1950) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator renowned for his masterful etchings and evocative depictions of sensuality, decadence, and the intimate undercurrents of human desire. The art of Alméry Lobel-Riche is characterized by a troubled and troubling atmosphere of decadent sensuality, and is very much the artistic counterpart of the poetry of Baudelaire and de Musset. His work often explores the world of galanterie—the elegant yet shadowed realm of courtesans, lovers, and nocturnal pleasures, with a refined technique that blends classical mastery with fin-de-siècle eroticism. Born Alméric Joseph Riche in Geneva to French parents, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and later in Paris under masters such as…