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Pornocrates or The Lady with the Pig (1878) by Félicien Victor Joseph Rops, from the Original, Framed Art Print
Pornocrates or The Lady with the Pig (1878) by Félicien Victor Joseph Rops, from the Original, Framed Art Print
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Pornocrates, Pornokratès, La Dame au Cochon, or The Lady with the Pig is an 1878 painting by the Belgian artist Félicien Rops. It is part of the collection of the Musée Provincial Félicien Rops in Namur, Belgium.
The original work is 75 cm high and 48 cm wide, executed in gouache and watercolour paint heightened with pastel on paper. Reproductions of the work - soft-ground etchings (as shown here), heliogravures and aquatints - are also held in other museum collections, such as the LACMA, the National Museum of Western Art and The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Pornocrates is considered the best-known work by Rops. It was painted when he was 45 years old and living in Paris with Léontine Duluc and her sister Aurélie, with both of whom he fathered children. The title of the work can be translated as "the ruler of fornication".
According to a letter by Rops, the painting was done "in an overheated apartment, full of different smells, where the opopanax and cyclamen gave me a slight fever conducive towards production or even towards reproduction". The work depicts a woman, holding a pig on a leash, viewed from the left side. The woman, said to be a courtesan, is almost naked, with the exception of long black silk gloves, a blindfold, a plumed hat, black shoes and stockings, and a band of gold and blue silk, all accessories which only emphasize her nakedness.
Above the pig with golden tail, three winged 'putti' or cherubs fly away in what appears to be shock or horror. Rops refers to them as "three loves – ancient loves – vanish in tears".
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