Antique Erotic

Dating back to Greek mythology, Leda and the Swan offered artists an acceptable motif for erotic depiction. The French sculptor Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse chose this mythological...

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

Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen is erotic material that would circulate privately among Vienna's upper-class men.

From the start of the 19th century to his retirement, Eizan was leading artist of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and shunga (erotic prints). He is considered the founder of t...

From the start of the 19th century to his retirement, Eizan was leading artist of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and shunga (erotic prints). He is considered the founder of t...

These marks used to disguise his identity on the erotic works. This particular statuette is signed with both, "B" in an urn-shaped cartouche AND "Nam Greb".  

Hérouard’s versatility as an artist allowed him to move seamlessly between erotic art, magazine illustration, and more commercial commissions like this one.

This original print represents an erotic scene with two sensual harem slave girls portrayed in an idyllic view, smiling and covered by precious fabrics and jewels.

Oil painting Inspired by the Berlin nightlife of the 1920s as well as by his childhood spent in a traveling circus, he uses expressive painting techniques to locate barmaids, waitres...

Oil painting Inspired by the Berlin nightlife of the 1920s as well as by his childhood spent in a traveling circus, he uses expressive painting techniques to locate barmaids, waitres...

Oil painting Inspired by the Berlin nightlife of the 1920s as well as by his childhood spent in a traveling circus, he uses expressive painting techniques to locate barmaids, waitres...

Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen is erotic material that would circulate privately among Vienna's upper-class men.

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.

In classical mythology, Cupid is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars.

The voluptuous women figures used in many of his sculptures are a product of this time and style. Nature and the erotic was, also, used often in this type style of art, which is seen...

His works are full of classic themes (history, mythology, religion and erotics) but interpretation is paradoxical, associative, allegoric and also subjective.

His works are full of classic themes (history, mythology, religion and erotics) but interpretation is paradoxical, associative, allegoric and also subjective.

The bed has almost ancient erotic undertones which at the time this was made must have scandalous.

These marks were used to disguise his identity on erotic works. His father Franz Bergmann was a professional chaser from Gablonz / Bohemia who came to Vienna and founded a small bron...

He is best known for his graphic works, many of which are horror or erotic. Rupes was educated in Brussels. His first drawings were published in the humorous newspaper Crocodile (185...

Scenes from the Bible and classical antiquity, depictions of ships, harbours, landscapes as well as city views were all quite common too. Slightly erotic scenes were also much favour...

These marks were used to disguise his identity on erotic works. - His father Franz Bergmann was a professional chaser from Gablonz / Bohemia who came to Vienna and founded a small br...

He also realized several erotic artworks for Paul Verlaine, Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, and Jean-Louis Miège.

Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones...

From the start of the 19th century to his retirement, Eizan was leading artist of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and shunga (erotic prints). He is considered the founder of t...

From the start of the 19th century to his retirement, Eizan was leading artist of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and shunga (erotic prints). He is considered the founder of t...

More than 30 paintings by Masanobu have been published, mainly of courtesans but including a few actors. His most notable erotic work in this medium is a handscroll given the title N...

.), scenes with Indians or Arabs , erotic motifs as well as charming little comical scenes.

He is best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, although he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, a...

He is renowned for his work in the field of erotic literature. This artwork is shipped from Italy.

Louis Icart (1888-1950) artist that worked in America and France. This Erotic etching and aquatint printed with colour and with hand colour titled "SMOKE' (FUMÉE), 1926" showing a be...

Bellmer photographed the doll in a series of erotic postures, publishing a collection of 10 of these images, accompanied by text, as 'Die Puppe' in 1934.

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.

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.

Often cast as an enfant terrible, who was imprisoned in 1912 for publicly displaying lewd erotic-based paintings and drawings, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was in actuality a central fig...

He is best known for his graphic works, many of which are horror or erotic. Rupes was educated in Brussels. His first drawings were published in the humorous newspaper Crocodile (185...

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

Although his art became somewhat more restrained and less overtly erotic, he continued to work steadily and in various media.

This original print, representing an amusing and erotic scene demonstrates the masterful draftsmanship of Choisy Le Conin.

Alfred Boucher often had an erotic edge to his work, as exemplified by the present nude sculpture.

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

He is best known for his graphic works, many of which are horror or erotic. Rupes was educated in Brussels. His first drawings were published in the humorous newspaper Crocodile (185...

He is best known for his graphic works, many of which are horror or erotic. Rupes was educated in Brussels. His first drawings were published in the humorous newspaper Crocodile (185...

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

He made these themes into erotic and athletic sculptures, as we can see for example at the sculptures The Carrier Pigeon and Towards Destiny.

These marks were used to disguise his identity on erotic works. His father Franz Bergmann was a professional chaser from Gablonz / Bohemia who came to Vienna and founded a small bron...

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

These marks were used to disguise his identity on erotic works. His father Franz Bergmann was a professional chaser from Gablonz / Bohemia who came to Vienna and founded a small bron...

An erotically charged early 20th century Art Deco cold painted bronze lamp modelled with a harem beauty relaxing on a rug in front of an Arab man with an architectural background wit...

Scholars are divided about whether his relationship with children included an erotic component. In 1982, a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.

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

These marks were used to disguise his identity on erotic works. His father Franz Bergmann was a professional chaser from Gablonz / Bohemia who came to Vienna and founded a small bron...

He produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronze Oriental, erotic and animal figures, the latter often humanized or whimsical, humorous objects d'art.

Supplementary to these is a portfolio of 15 much more explicit etchings by Charles Martin, relating to the same subjects, These etchings are in two states: pure etchings on Japan, an...

Schiele's hand joined so many ways of seeing to capture the erotic, the intellectual, the esthetic. In the early years of 20th century Vienna, there was no clear separation between f...

This original print represents a series of sketches with various subjects, some of which are ironic and erotic. Felicien Rops was born in Namur in 1833 and attended the University o...

Especially in Central Europe, where the colonization of distant countries began later than in Spain, the Netherlands or Great Britain, the exotic on the one hand symbolized the savag...