Eugène le Poitevin (1806 - 1870) Diableries érotiques 1832.

Diableries érotiques (English: erotic devilries) is the title given to a series of lithographs by French artist Eugène le Poitevin, depicting devils and other diabolic creatures playing various tricks on young girls.

The first album of these lithographs was entitled Les diables de lithographies! (1832, English: Devilish lithographs):

"The album, co-published in Paris by chez Aumont and in London by Charles Tilt, contains eighty illustrations on twelve black and white numbered lithographed plates, with two supplemental plates (Petits sujets des diableries manquent le plus souvent, nos. 19 and 26: Paris / London: chez Aubert / Charles Tilt, 1832) containing thirty-five illustrations; a total of fourteen plates with 115 illustrations."

"Upon its publication, Les Diables de Lithographies was hugely popular, a sensational success that became en vogue, so much so that demand for further "devilries" became enormous. Le Poitevin quickly followed with Les diableries érotiquesPetits sujets des diableriesBizarreries diaboliques; and Encore des DiableriesA. de Bayalos's Diablotins and Michel Delaporte's Récréations diabolico-fantasmagoriques continued in the genre that Le Poitevin established."