Messalina and her Companion

Messalina and her Companion  is a beautiful original print on paper realized by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley.

Black and white lithograph. 

The artwork is the plate n. 26  from the portfolio  Erotiques de Beardsley.  Editions Les yeux ouverts 1970, Paris.  Exemplaire n°112 of an editon of 469.

The artwork includes copy of the portfolio cover. 

Good conditions.

Original title:  Messaline

The artwork shows an i llustration realized by the artist in 1895 for   the  Sixth Satire ,  the most famous of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century.

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau style and the poster movement was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis.

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