WILLETTE Adolphe,1884 - Parce Domine - Detail 157
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Français : Detail 157 - Jeunes vierges nues et petite communiante tenant un cierge et une Bible dans ses mains, au-dessus des toits de Paris, avec un chat roux au pied d'une haute cheminée -
English: - Young naked virgins and a little communicant holding a lighted candle and a Bible in her hands above the roofs of Paris, with a red cat by a high black chimney - Montmartre -
The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cémoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bébé", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, and so on notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the ceiling for La Cigale music hall. Willette contributed to the Salon des Cent and six of his posters were published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche. A collection of his works was exhibited in 1888. His V'almy is in the Luxembourg, Paris.[1] Willette's characteristically fantastic Parce Domine was commissioned by Rodolphe Salis for Le Chat Noir in Montmartre. It was shown in the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908.
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