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

[bobinder]

"Le Brenn et Sa Part de Butin"
(1893)
(Le Brenn and his share of the booty)
By Paul Jamin

Further information on the event depicted can be found here -
https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/original-manipulations-by-cruxforums-members.8463/post-884313

 

[Jollyrei]

Further information on the event depicted can be found here -
https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/original-manipulations-by-cruxforums-members.8463/post-884313

Isn't history fascinating?

 

[ducon007]

"An Anatomy Lesson"
Photograph by William Mortensen
(ca. 1920)

 

[Eulalia]

"Les Prisonnières"
(The women prisoners)
By Georges Conrad (1874-1936)

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Based on:
"Le Brenn et Sa Part de Butin"
(1893)
(Le Brenn and his share of the booty)
By Paul Jamin

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it's amusing how the hairstyles and make-up date them - "Les Prisonnières" must be 1920s - but we damsels are always given a beauty makeover when we're about to be distressed!

 

[Jollyrei]

it's amusing how the hairstyles and make-up date them - "Les Prisonnières" must be 1920s - but we damsels are always given a beauty makeover when we're about to be distressed!

Hardly worth distressing a damsel who isn't prettied up - she'd be distressed already.

 

[ducon007]

it's amusing how the hairstyles and make-up date them - "Les Prisonnières" must be 1920s - but we damsels are always given a beauty makeover when we're about to be distressed!

"The Eternal Feminine"
(Johan Wolfgang von Goethe)

 

[ducon007]

Two artworks for the same scene by Ernest Jean Delahaye:
"La Recéleuse"
(A receiver of stolen goods)
1904



"Le Général Bonaparte condamne la Cantinière à être promenée toute nue sur un âne"
(General Bonaparte condemns La Cantinière to be carried naked on a donkey)
1909



Conviction by General Bonaparte of a canteen maid guilty of concealing silver stolen by soldiers during the Italian campaign.
The episode is attested to in the memoirs of Captain Jean Coignet.

 

[gerembeau]

Superb find. !!!

 

[supplice]

Two artworks for the same scene by Ernest Jean Delahaye:
"La Recéleuse"
(A receiver of stolen goods)
1904

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"Le Général Bonaparte condamne la Cantinière à être promenée toute nue sur un âne"
(General Bonaparte condemns La Cantinière to be carried naked on a donkey)
1909

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Conviction by General Bonaparte of a canteen maid guilty of concealing silver stolen by soldiers during the Italian campaign.
The episode is attested to in the memoirs of Captain Jean Coignet.

"...a canteen maid guilty of concealing silver stolen by soldiers during the Italian campaign."

OK. What happened to the soldiers? (Probably nothing since they were men.)

 

[ducon007]

"...a canteen maid guilty of concealing silver stolen by soldiers during the Italian campaign."

OK. What happened to the soldiers? (Probably nothing since they were men.)

Bonaparte needed his soldiers too badly...

 

[Eulalia]

"...a canteen maid guilty of concealing silver stolen by soldiers during the Italian campaign."

OK. What happened to the soldiers? (Probably nothing since they were men.)

Or to the silver? Probably not returned to the Italians.

 

[ducon007]

"La Jeune Fille et la Mort"
(The Maiden and Death)
ca. 1900
By Henri Léopold Lévy

 

[supplice]

Or to the silver? Probably not returned to the Italians.

Made into Bonaparte's campaign silver service? Lost in Russia?

 

[ducon007]

Artwork by Paul Grabwinkler.
Any German speaking to translate the text at the bottom ?

 

[His_Magnificence]

Artwork by Paul Grabwinkler.
Any German speaking to translate the text at the bottom ?

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Above: our order of society. Below

Artwork by Paul Grabwinkler.
Any German speaking to translate the text at the bottom ?

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Below: given away in love not sold by honor

 

[ducon007]

Above: our order of society. Below

Below: given away in love not sold by honor

Thanks!

 

[ducon007]

Two artworks by Jean Veber:
"La Correction conjugale"
(Marital Correction)

"La Loi protège la Fortune"
(The Law protects Fortune)

 

[ducon007]

"La Jeune Fille et la Mort"
ou
"Le Pied à l'étrier"
(Maiden and the Death, or The Foot in the Stirrup)
By Henri Einsenberg

 

[vadim69]

 

[Eulalia]

"La Jeune Fille et la Mort"
ou
"Le Pied à l'étrier"
(Maiden and the Death, or The Foot in the Stirrup)
By Henri Einsenberg

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@Jollyrei is such a gentleman - always ready to give a girl a lift!