French Painter (19th Century) - Erotic Scene With A Monk.

French painter (19th century) - Erotic scene with a monk.

24 x 17 cm (without frame) - 28.5 x 21.5 cm (with frame).

Ink drawing on paper, in wooden frame.

The drawing belongs to the tradition of erotic draughtsmanship of the Romantic era, widely practiced in France throughout the 19th century in both academic and more private, libertine contexts. The anticlerical subject, depicting a monk in a licentious encounter with a female figure, fits within a well-established satirical tradition in French art and literature of the period, nourished by the secular and polemical climate that followed the Revolution.
The sheet is executed with a confident and fluid ink technique. The line reveals the hand of a draughtsman with academic training, capable of building volumes through a modulated stroke and of effectively conveying bodily tension and the rendering of drapery.

Condition report: Good state of conservation of the paper support and graphic surface. Some yellowing and staining. Work preserved under glass.

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