Topor created darkly comic and provocative illustrated books and prints with a surrealist sensibility that closely mirrors Bellmer's blend of disturbing figuration and black humor. His etching and illustrative work for publications shares the same unsettling yet sardonic moral undertones found in Petit traité de morale.

Kubin was a master of darkly illustrative, conceptually provocative printmaking and book illustration with deeply surrealist and psychosexual undercurrents that parallel Bellmer's etching style. His work for limited edition publications shares the same twentieth century European sensibility of unsettling figuration and macabre wit.

Rops produced provocative and morally transgressive etchings for limited edition literary publications that anticipate Bellmer's own approach to darkly comic and erotic illustrative printmaking. His figures carry the same conceptually charged and unsettling quality that defines this specific Bellmer work.