Avril, Edouard Henri

(10/19/1843 Algiers-1928 Le Raincy) (France);

   aka Avril, Paul Painter, engraver, etcher, draughtsman, illustrator, and designer. Studied under Pils and P. Lehmann. He worked in a light, almost caricatur-istic linear style producing a series of erotic works such as illustrations to Fanny Hill. Also illustrated the 1906 Paris edition of the Manual of Classical Erotology and other sexual works.

   Reproductions: [Ancient Egyptian scene of male homosexuality]; 1910; lithograph; Hill, 1996: p. 75 / Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 124 [C]. Ancient times, illustration for De Figuris Veneris; Lucie-Smith 1997: p. 164 [C]. [Bisexual 2M, 1F scene set in Ancient times]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 123 [C]. [Bisexual 2M, 2F group sex scene]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 128 [C]. [Cunnilingus scene]; c1910; Dopp, 2003: p. 33 [C]. [Cunnilingus scene], from Ancient Times series; c1910; Cawthorne, 1997: p. 154 [C] / Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 123 [C] / Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 183 [C]. [Fellatio scene set in Ancient Rome]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 122 [C].

   [Female lovers in bed]; c1910; Dopp, 2003: p. 32 . Frontispiece to the English translation of Histoire de Dom B; Kearney, 1982: p. 65 . [Herder has sex with goat], from De Figuris Veneris; Dopp 2000: p. 46 [C]. [Group sex scene, 1M, 4F]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 129 [C]. [Lesbian couple engaged in sex discovered by a man, set in Ancient times]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 127 [C]. [Man enters man from the rear who is copulating with a woman in an Ancient setting]; c1910; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 58 [C]. [Man enters woman from behind]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 125 [C]. [Man performs cunnilingus on woman from the rear], from De Figuris Veneris; Dopp 2000: p. 46 [C]. [Man with three women], from Ancient Times series; Cawthorne, 1997: p. 151 [C]. Metamorphosis of Venus series; early 20th century; etchings; Brusendorff, 1960b: pp. 36-37 [B]. [Naked man enters a room to discover two women making love]; c1910; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 98 [C]. [Older man and young boy], from De Figuris Veneris; Dopp 2000: p. 45 [C]. [Older man enters youth from behind in Ancient Egyptian setting]; c1910; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 59 [C]. [Roman emperor fellated amid four maidens]; Cawthorne, 1997: p. 155 [C]. [Three women and man in orgy]., from De Fig-uris Veneris; Dopp 2000: p. 45 [C]. [Strap-on lesbian scene set in Ancient times]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 126 [C]. [Strap-on scene]; c1910;

   Dopp, 2003: p. 30 [C]. Title page with nudes, cupids, satyrs, etc., from De Figuris Veneris; Dopp 2000: p. 45 [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 1: pp. 882-883.