19th Century Erotic Glass églomisé

Very pretty erotic scene "at the toilet", 19th century period, in verre églomisé. Dimensions on view: 18 x 18 cmDimensions of the verre églomisé: 7.5 x 5 cmDepicting a young woman of the nobility taking her toilet and helped by a servant, we see, meticulously painted using the verre églomisé technique, some bare parts of the chests of the two young women. The rest is harmoniously suggested. The finesse of the details, the precision and the meticulousness of this technique is remarkable. Placed on a red velvet surrounded by its original gilded frame, this scene refers to the rise of eroticism in Western Europe of the 19th century, following in the footsteps of Asia. Nudity, lasciviousness, sensuality, provocation, immodesty, or obscenity... during the 19th century, eroticism took on a new place in Western visual culture, notably thanks to the rise of reproduction processes such as photography, the press, lithography, or here, the technique of verre églomisé, which consists of fixing a thin sheet of gold or silver under the glass. The drawing is then executed with a drypoint and is held in place by a second layer or a glass plate. This process has been known since ancient Rome and experienced a boom during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in the representation of genre scenes from the Romantic movement.