Antique Erotic

He is noted for his drawings depicting erotic and Satanic themes. Rops is furthermore important for being a pioneer in Belgian comics.

Regarding Henning, he wrote: "The sweet girls, unobserved in their toe-playing, catching fleas, picking their toes, or simply resting, evolving into more erotic scenes in clay—small...

[Chanticleer 29] A humorous and erotic poem that "celebrates the union of John Lord Lovelace and Lady Anne Wentworth on 11 July 1638", this edition includes an engraving of music no...

From the press of Charles Carrington, notorious publisher of erotic literature. The volume is illustrated in the style of a medieval manuscript.

The volume is dedicated to the erotic texts, letters and diaries collected by Stendhal during his life.

More than 150 lots included paintings, watercolors, drawings, and illustrated books, with subjects ranging from landscapes, portraits and self-portraits to nudes and erotic drawings....

ABOUT ARTIST Franz Xavier Bergmann (Austrian, 1861-1936) was the owner of a Viennese foundry who produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronze, cold painted bronze refers to p...

$750 Brilliant print of an erotic-mystical subject. Wiener Jugendstil, Erotic, Austrian, Symbolist.

She can be Erato, the muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry and mimic imitation. It depicts a lady dressed with a pink, beige and blue robe, but with semi bare upper chest.

Harunobu also painted erotic scenes, and he liked to have celebrated contemporary beauties such as O-Sen and O-Fuji model for him.

The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive - albeit tortured - gait of small, light steps.

The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive - albeit tortured - gait of small, light steps.

Shunga is an original modern artwork realized by Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) in the half of the 18th Century. Oban yokoe. Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko" (...

The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive - albeit tortured - gait of small, light steps.

The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive, albeit tortured, gait of small, light steps.

The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive - albeit tortured - gait of small, light steps.

In bronze, rather than Goldscheider's usual terracotta, it depicts a sultry, erotic, female figure, her gown slipping off her shoulders, stood raising her left hand high, with a snak...

Period : Southern Song Dynasty - Yuan Dynasty Type : Celadon Medium : Longquan ware Provenance : Acquired in early 2000s from Japan Reference : 1) Sotheby's Hongkong 29 April 2022 - ...

Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator who contributed to the development of the Art Nouveau style, known for his grotesque, decadent and erotic depictions inspired by Japanese ...

He also participated in the illustration of about thirty works, including a good number of erotic ones. During the Occupation, he composed an engraved series entitled L'Exode.

These marks used to disguise his identity on the erotic works. Often, the sculptures are also marked with model number and stamped “GESHUTZED” (German for “PROTECTED”).

For entertainment every night each told a story: love stories ranging from the erotic to the tragic, tales of wit and deception, practical jokes, and life lessons.

Best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional g...

Although it is generally believed in Europe that the subject matter of this scene refers to an erotic story of stolen fruit, the fruit depicted with a large round form could be repre...

Concurrently the Decadent Movement harnessed a symbolism that emphasised the spiritual, morbid and erotic. It is evident that this work possesses the decorative qualities of the aes...

Concurrently, the Decadent Movement harnessed a symbolism that emphasised the spiritual, morbid and erotic. It is evident that this work possesses the decorative qualities of the ae...

The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive, albeit tortured, gait of small, light steps.

Later in his career, Ricciarelli became known for his skill in creating erotic art, which was a departure from his earlier religious works.

Depicting a debonair, calm, and young male figure full of self-confidence, this fine work stands out among Zach's oeuvre, which usually features erotic pieces. Made in patinated bron...

A highly regarded maker of such pieces, Bergman (Austrian, 1861-1936), worked on a range of pieces from Orientalist to figurative, erotic, and animal or animalia works, with the latt...

Louis Perceau (1883-1942), a French poet and writer, still renowned for his erotic works, asked Gerda Wegener to illustrate his book of erotic poetry, Douze Sonnets Lascifs, which wa...

The character retained his erotic inspiration since in 1919 he exhibited at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts a box with the theme of Sapphic love, entitled "Chaste look...

These Shunga images were issued in books that paralleled (in an erotic fashion) the 52 chapters of Genji Monogatari, or Tales of Prince Genji.

Illustrated with 15 plates from paintings by Louis Chalon reproduced in photogravure, most quite evocative and many erotic, all executed in superb fashion and with great skill.

The emotional fluidity of Klimt’s erotic drawings created and still creates an intense psychological reaction in the viewer.

Created in Japan, this woodblock print called a Shunga and depicting two women making love, derives from an erotic artistic tradition featuring graphic images of sexual activity.

These characters were used to disguise his identity on erotic works. His father Franz Bergmann was a professional hunter from Gablonz / Bohemia, who came to Vienna and founded a sm...

Noted for his detailed and colorful work, Bergman was signing his creations with either a "B" in an urn-shaped cartouche, or "Nam Greb" for "Bergman" in reverse (these marks used to ...

Created in Japan, this woodblock print called a Shunga and depicting a couple making love, derives from an erotic artistic tradition featuring graphic images of sexual activity.

He designed at least 350 hashira-e pillar prints, numerous kachō-e bird-and-flower prints, a great number of shunga erotic prints, and others. Ninety of his nikuhitsu-ga paintings ar...

Created in Japan, this woodblock print called a Shunga and depicting a couple making love, derives from an erotic artistic tradition featuring graphic images of sexual activity.

Created in Japan, this woodblock print called a Shunga and depicting a couple making love, derives from an erotic artistic tradition featuring graphic images of sexual activity.

Although it is generally believed in Europe that the subject matter of this scene refers to an erotic story of stolen fruit, the fruit depicted with a large round form could be repre...

Privately published München: Albert Langen, 1912. A collection of erotic images, with many facsimiles and great commentaries in German.

These marks used to disguise his identity on the erotic works. Often, the sculptures are also marked with model number and stamped “GESHUTZED” (German for “PROTECTED”).  

As well as landscapes and still lifes, a large part of his work was devoted to depictions of women, often nude and discreetly erotic, such as "Courtisane endormie" (Sleeping Courtesa...

His own early work consisted of pastiches of romantic "fancy pictures"--odalisques, bathers, erotic mythologies, sentimental idylls. Gifted with an abundant, dangerously effortless f...

In this painting, a closeup of a young female’s erotic buttock fills the horizontal space. Engulfing the sexy nude body is a dense array of Lilliputian-like figures.

., 12-9/16" x 9-1/4", limited to 600 numbered copies this being #114, illustrated with 7 full page mildly erotic plates by Franz Von Bayros, bound in full blue morocco, ribbed gilt d...

In 1859, when his portrait of Aurora was banned by the judges of the Salon as "too erotically suggestive", Napoléon III defended Chaplin and overturned the disqualification order.

He produced a number of surimono (prints that were privately issued), erotic prints, and landscapes, including The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō, which he started and which w...

These marks used to disguise his identity on the erotic works. Often, the sculptures are also marked with model number and stamped “GESHUTZED” (German for “PROTECTED”).   

An erotically charged early 20th century Art Deco cold painted bronze figure of a seductively dressed young lady holding a riding crop behind her back standing in a domineering pose ...

It is a narrative that explores themes of power, seduction, and metamorphosis, often depicted with a blend of both erotic and tragic undertones. One such depiction is the present wh...

Exuberant gouache portrait of a smiling auburn haired female by French erotic artist Carlo Charléno, circa 1930. Signed lower right.

This latter, which reads ‘Bergman’ in reverse, was often used on his more erotic pieces, which were not to the taste of his more conservative clients or his family.

A wonderfully powerful erotic ring. The sculptural form portraying Adam & Eve clasping hands symbolizing original love.

The artwork represents a nude woman laid down making love with a winged-skeleton, a horror exotic imaginary scene of violent erotic pleasure and pain, due to indicating to death and ...

He was also famous for erotic and sexual drawings. He has worked for many years at Il Mondo.

He was also famous for erotic and sexual drawings. He has worked for many years at Il Mondo.