18th century porn

[frualeydis]

L'aretin Francais (I can't get the cedille on the c). Printed c. 1800, but as you can see the clothing indicates that the image was made a little earlier. It shows a husband discovering his wife in bed with a lover. There was a much increased output in pornographical engravings in France in the second half of the 18th century.

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[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Charles Eisen did a couple of motifs in the style above. Check also out the erotic novels of Nicolas Chorier.

But of course, it all started with Giulio Romano and Pietro Aretino. The latter made a series of 16 erotic drawings og paintings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Modi ) which were very explisite. The publisher Raimondi made engravings of them and published them, which lead to his arrest, and all known copies destroyed by the Vatican. Raimondi's copies, that is. Romano's originals weren't published. They served as a basis for what Aretino and Raimondi published later; "Sonetti Lussorosi" from 1527. It contained versions of the original "porn" together with 16 erotic sonnets to go with each of them. It was later expanded to 20 illustrations and sonnets. Several copies or versions of them are in the British Museum in London, but I don't know how easy accessible they are. But many has been published in the book "Västerländsk erotisk konst" by Richard Bentley.

I know you're heading for later periods, but much of the erotic illustrations of the 18th century has its basis in the work of Romano/Raimondi/Aretino.

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Haha, I just realized the full set of the Romano/Raimondi/Aretino ones (copy) is included in the link I gave above... But unlike the Rococo counterparts, these one seems to be purely heterosexual, with one man and one woman. Might be due to them being a commisioned work, as Giulio Romano was no stranger to ambiguity.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I know about Arieto of course, but didn't have any online sources. Thank you.

/Eva

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

I wrote:

"But of course, it all started with Giulio Romano and Pietro Aretino. The latter made a series of 16 erotic drawings or paintings"

I did of course mean the FORMER. Giulio Romano made the originals, Aretino the later versions.

And you're quite welcome!