'Les Fleurs du Mal' (1857) by Charles Baudelaire illustrated by various artists.
In this first video you can see the drawings by:
0:00 Charles Baudelaire (1821 -- 1867)
2:13 Eugène Delacroix (1798 -- 1863)
5:14 Félicien Rops (1833 -- 1898)


Music by Claude Debussy, '5 poèmes de Baudelaire -- 1. Le Balcon'.
Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Michel Béroff, piano.


In this second video you can see the drawings by:
0:00 Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
1:09 Georges Rochegrosse (1859-1938)
3:36 Auguste Rodin (1840--1917)
6:09 Émile Bernard (1868 -- 1941)

Music by Claude Debussy, '5 poèmes de Baudelaire -- 2. L'Harmonie du Soir 3. Le Jet d'Eau'.
Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Michel Béroff, piano.

In this third video you can see the drawings by:
0:00 Carlos Schwabe (1866 -- 1926)
1:54 Henri Matisse (1869 --1954)
5:20 Kees van Dongen (1877 -- 1968)
6:37 Carlo Farneti (1892 - 1961)

Music by Claude Debussy, '5 poèmes de Baudelaire -- 4. Recueillement 5. La Mort des Amants'.
Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Michel Béroff, piano.

Les Fleurs du Mal' (1857) by Charles Baudelaire illustrated by various artists.

'Les Fleurs du mal' (often translated The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The subject matter of these poems deals with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.