The goal of this page is to offer a Bibliothèque of all known Stereo-Diableries. The most complete list (compiled by Denis Pellerin) I have ever seen mention 139 different Diableries, most likely part of several series since some of them are related to others or simply other versions of the same subject.

Diableries are wonderfull examples of the fascination for death in 19^th. Century photography and made with a lot of imagination and humour. Death in photography is seen in many different ways but here we see the subject in a less serious interpretation. In another page we will see stereo-ghost images but both, these devils & ghosts images, are in no way related to the respectfull 19^th. Century Post-Mortem photographs, subject of another page on this website.

The most popular Diableries are the "tissue" versions since they are made to view with transmitted light from behind, revealing the most wonderfull coulors and light effect similar as seen in a Vue d'Optique viewed by back-light in a peepshow box. Many non-transparent versions are found also and both are equally interesting for the serious collector!

Because of their rarity, most Diableries will be illustrated here as single images. Where possible, I will add, both, links to stereo versions & color images.
To my knowledge, only one book is devoted interely on these fascinating views, written by Jac Remise, the same author of the well known "Magie Lumineuse" illustrating the Pre-cinema.

DIABLERIES, LA VIE QUOTIDIENNE CHEZ SATAN A LA FIN DU 19^e SIECLE. Balland, 1978

This book mention 72 different Diableries as one complete set.
Perhaps this is true, Although I feel that some of the views do not all belong to one single set. Several other views mentioned in the 139 title list could be part of the majority of views depicted in Jac Remise's wonderfull publication.

A good example of a suchlike view, not published by Remise, is "Diable d'Argent" made by Hennetier, as seen in the left image.

Pierre Adolph Hennetier (1828 - 1888)

Louis Alfred Habert (1824 - 1893)

Edmond Cougny (1831 - 1900)

Most of the Stereo Diableries are anonymous, although 25 images depicted in the book have a signature in the plaster. The same names are occasionally also found on the diableries in the extented diablerie list wich proves their connection.

Three different names are found in the plaster of the "72" series. Hennetier (14), Habert (10), Cougny (1).
I supose these names where not the creators of the Diablerie series but the sculptors who made the mouldings on demand.
Cougny turns up only one time. Hennetier is mostly seen in this set and also in the other Diableries, subsequent to the number 72.

Diable d'Argent and Le Diable amoureux are both suchlike examples of Diableries made by Hennetier and due to this belong to this, as it were, "original" set. Of course, there are more reasons to supose the existence of at least three different series!

Le Diable amoureux

(17) Fête de Satan

When viewing the diableries, different styles are recognised!
A lot are entirely real 3-D diorama settings. (left)
Others are only a plaster relief moulding. (right)
Further, several diableries are a combination of a painted or 2-D background with three-dimensional elements in the foreground. (below left & right)
These three genres are seen in the book and it is very unlikely that all three genres originally belonged all together?

(04) Le Purgatoire

            Une machine Infernal

(44) Résurrection

              (32) Satan malade

Les medecines du Diable

The definitive book on Stereo Diableries will be published in 2012 by
Denis Pellerin - Brian May - Paula Fleming
!!! Info The London Stereoscopic Company Info !!!