Peromedusae - Jellyfish paperart Title: „Monsieur Boileau at the

Title: „Monsieur Boileau at the Café“

Title: „(Underpass—New York)“

for Philips) for illustrated books

and this plate gathers a constellation of them in deep reds

arranging them so that the plate reads as both an accurate study and a dazzling decorative composition — exactly the blend that made his work so influential on Art Nouveau

Peromedusae - Jellyfish paperart Title: „Monsieur Boileau at theThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part