Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art

[coldturkey]

Maurice d'Apinac, Miriam : her Painful Adventure, 1932 (Illustrations by Gaston Smit)

 

[coldturkey]

Pierre Dufour, Custom of Toulouse (Execution of a Woman by Drowning), from History of Prostitution from Furthest Antiquity to our Days, 1851

 

[coldturkey]

Aroldo Bonzagni (1887-1918), Marauding Soldiers Murdering, Raping and Pillaging

 

[coldturkey]

Artist : Shannon Cartier Lucy
(Untitled)

Thanks @wolsung ! I did not know that painting (or artist) ! What is your interpretation of the work ?

 

[coldturkey]

The Three Red Monks Bury Alive Beautiful Katelik and Her Child, from Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of the People, or the History of a Proletarian Family through the Ages, 1849-1857 (Henri-Désiré Charpentier, illustrator)

 

[wolsung]

I did not know that painting (or artist)

I also saw these paintings only recently.
His other paintings :

https://vk.com/erotica_in_art?w=wall-87033766_33404

What is your interpretation of the work ?

I think, this is the punishment of an unfaithful wife or lover.

 

[coldturkey]

Juan Manuel Blanes (1830-1901), The Captive

 

[coldturkey]

Gabriel Ferrier, Scene of the Inquisition in Spain, 1879

 

[hanger58]

I like this thread. The museum I always dreaming of... Thanks a lot. Here is a "Judith and Holophernes" thing. Surprised it was not already post. (There are several painting on this classical myth storie and this one is by Artemisia (I have to reframe and resize it). Hope you like it.

 

[coldturkey]

I like this thread. The museum I always dreaming of... Thanks a lot. Here is a "Judith and Holophernes" thing. Surprised it was not already post. (There are several painting on this classical myth storie and this one is by Artemisia (I have to reframe and resize it). Hope you like it.
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Thanks @hanger58 ! Beautiful painting ! I love the Judith myth : she is somewhere in between a virtuous damsel in distress and a femme fatale...

 

[ducon007]

The Death of Brunhilda, from Famous Women of Spain and Portugal, Juan de Dios de la Rada y Delgado, 1868

I have dozens on the death of Brunehaut (Brunhilda), but not this one!

 

[coldturkey]

I have dozens on the death of Brunehaut (Brunhilda), but not this one!

Glad that you can expand your collection ! Another rare engraving of Brunehaut that I found while browsing the net (origin unknown) :

 

[ducon007]

Glad that you can expand your collection ! Another rare engraving of Brunehaut that I found while browsing the net (origin unknown) :

I have this one! And I wonder if, in the lower right corner, "Lechard sc." does not indicate the engraver? To be checked...

 

[coldturkey]

I have this one! And I wonder if, in the lower right corner, "Lechard sc." does not indicate the engraver? To be checked...

E. Lechard seems to be a mid-19th century Parisian engraver in any case : https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/recherche/type/oeuvre/ET/auteur/Lechard, E.

 

[ducon007]

E. Lechard seems to be a mid-19th century Parisian engraver in any case : https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/recherche/type/oeuvre/ET/auteur/Lechard, E.

Thank you for the link!

 

[meinaru]

I also saw these paintings only recently.
His other paintings :

https://vk.com/erotica_in_art?w=wall-87033766_33404

I think, this is the punishment of an unfaithful wife or lover.

I've checked the artist. It's her, not him.

 

[meinaru]

Angelica Princess of Kathay threatened by a sea monster, picture by Gustave Dore illustrating the scene from Orlando Furioso. In many a way a play on the Andromeda theme:

 

[coldturkey]

Angelica Princess of Kathay threatened by a sea monster, picture by Gustave Dore illustrating the scene from Orlando Furioso. In many a way a play on the Andromeda theme:

Thanks for your contribution @meinaru ! Indeed, there seem to be quite a few tales that have in common the maid saved from the monster by a male hero. Another heroine subjected to a similar fate in Orlando Furioso is Olympia, the daughter of the count of Dordrecht...

 

[coldturkey]

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, Christian Virgins Exposed to the Mob, 1884

 

[coldturkey]

Eduard Ansen-Hofmann (1820-1904), The New Slave Girl