Bayros, Franz von Marquis

    (5/18/1866 Agram-4/3/1924 Vienna) (Austria); aka pseudonym Choisy le Conin

   Painter, illustrator, graphic artist, and bookplate designer. One of the most prolific erotic artists in history, a specialist in erotic imagery who worked in a rich, elegant style creating scenes with great attention to details of clothing, furniture, foliage, etc.

   Reproductions: And Amely still deprives herself of it! From Boudoir of Madame CC; 1910: heliogravures; Solow, 1980: p. 41 . Darling, you have surpassed yourself, illustration from Boudoir of Madame CC; 1910: heliogravures; Solow, 1980: p. 41 [B]. Die Tabakdose; c1911; lithograph; Bonhams, 1987: cover, p. 26 [B]. Fetishist, illustration from Tales of the Dressing-table; Bentley, 1984: p. 134 [B]. Five senes: hearing, illustration from Boudoir of Madame CC; 1910: heliogravures; Solow, 1980: p. 41 [B]. Five senes: smell, illustration from Boudoir of Madame CC; 1910: heliogravures; Solow, 1980: p. 40 [B] / Bonhams, 1987: p. 26 [B]. [Girl whose vagina licked by a deer]; lithograph; Kron-hausen, 1970c: p. 24 [B]. Glow worm, illustration from Boudoir of Madame CC; 1910: heliogravures; Solow, 1980: p. 41 [B]. Good hostess [young girls sharing dildo]; 1907; engraving; Hurwood, 1975: p. 297 [B] / Kronhausen, 1968: p. 104 [B]. [Nude woman suspended by her feet from the ceiling uses a dildo on herself]; 1909; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 103 [B]. Salome with the head of John the Baptist; c 1900; Webb, 1975: p. 174 [B]. She considered pleasure of one sort or another, illustration from the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill); Bonhams, 1987: p. 27 [B]. Stargazer; 1912; Neret 1993: p. 199 . [Woman and dog]; lithograph; Kronhausen, 1970c: p. 25 [B]. [Woman and phallus], illustration from Boudoir of Madame CC ; 1912; Bentley, 1984: p. 137 [B]. [Woman whose vagina licked by a dog]; lithograph; Kronhausen, 1970c: p. 25 [B]. [Woman rubs her genitals on a rope]; 1907; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 95 [B]. [Young women, one nude, at sex play]; 1907; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 94 [B].

   [b]Source: AKL VIII 1994: p. 3; Franz Bayros, Choisy le Conin: Bilder aus dem Boudoir der Madame C.C. (Vienna: Privately Printed, 1912); Franz Bayros, Erotische Graphik (Gutersloh: Bertelsmann, c1975); Benezit, vol. 1: pp. 1385-1386; RudolfBrettschneider, Franz von Bayros: Bibliographie seiner Werke und beschriebendes Verzechnis seiner Exlibris (Leipzig: A. Wiegel, 1926); Ludwig von Brunn, The amourous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros (New York: Cythera Press, 1968); Marquis Franz von Bayros: im Garten der Aphrodite; erotische zeichnungen und illus-trationen, Exquisit Kunst, no. 225 (Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 1980); Conte L.U. Rati-Oppizoni, "Francesco di Bayros," Journal Maestri della Stampa Erotica (Turin) 1912: p. 9; Conte L.U. Rati-Oppizoni, "Francesco di Bay-ros," Archivio dell'Associazione Italiana fra Amatori di Ex-Libris 1, 1 (March 1912): p. 8; Vollmer I 1953: p. 141; Peter Webb, Franz von Bayros and die Grenouilliere (London: Amorini, 1976).