Louis Billard, Alias Guy-loÿs, The King Of Ys (full Album With 15 Original Watercolors)

Louis BILLARD, alias Guy-Loÿs (painter and poet, active circa 1910-1920)
The King of Ys
Album comprising 15 drawings illustrating the Opera Le Roi d'Ys by Édouard Lalo (Lille, 1823 – Paris, 1892), after a libretto by Édouard Blau (Blois, 1836 – Paris, 1906)
Pen, black ink, brush and watercolor heightened with gouache
Dimensions of the album : 28 x 34.5 cm
Most of the compositions signed Guy-Loÿs , captioned and dated between 1910 and 1920, mainly in 1919.

Includes:

1) Mylio and the King (Act III), 21.5 x 22 cm
2) Rozenn and Margared, 21.5 x 12 cm
3) Rozenn at the edge of the sea (Act I), 23 x 15 cm
4) Karnac and Mylio (Act I), 25 x 17.5 cm
5) Saint Mylio, 15.5 x 6 cm
6) Mylio's pledge (Act II 1st tableau) , 25 x 17.5 cm
7) The Love of Rozenn and Mylio (Act II tableau 1), 24.5 x 17.5 cm
8) The Defeat of Karnac (Act II tableau 2), 21.5 x 24 cm
9) Apparition of Saint Corentin, 24.5 x 17 cm
10) The Sorrow of Margared, 16 x 12 cm
11) Mylio and Margared (Act III), 25.5 x 17.5 cm
12) The Flood, 20, 5 x 23 cm
13) Last Vision of Margared, 25.5 x 18 cm
14) The Tides bury Ys, the cursed city and Margared, the sinner, 24.5 x 16.5 cm
15) The End, 24.5 x 9 .5 cm

More photos available on request.