British poet and literary critic Arthur Symons (1865-1945) wrote about the Nineteenth Century French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) more as a subject of art rather than an influential wordsmith:
“Few modern poets have been more frequently drawn, and few have better repaid drawing, than Charles Baudelaire.”
Among the list of artists who created likenesses of the poet were his fellow dandy Edouard Manet (1832-1883), the photographer Etienne Carjat (1828-1906) and an obscure sculptor named Zachari Astrue, who created the poet’s death mask.
