Charles-Frederic Soehnee was a French artist who painted a series of bewitching and grotesque water colors between 1818 and 1819. The titles of his works read like a Black Sabbath track listing- Cradle of Death, Journey to Hell, Cover the Earth with Tombs (my favorite..)
Pictured in this odd collection are skeletonized creatures, tattered rodents and humans with smudged features of desperation and anguish. The narratives are eerie, macabre tales of giant lobsters, hanging corpses and monsters with their bones showing. The participants always appear to be on some awful journey. It's unknown if he completed other works not included in the three notebooks he left behind. That's basically all I have to say about him. Oh, and he also created a type of varnish.
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very cool stuff!!!!!
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