I love this artists work! He is from the 1800's and he did portraits of royalty subjects. He did his best work when painting erotic art paintings in a history painting portrait style. I have only seen one of his erotic NC-17 rating pictures and it was in a erotic art history book. You can see his royalty subjects portrait paintings at museums like the GETTY. I think it is thought that he made about 17 realistic erotic paintings. They are kind of in the same vein as Corbet's painting of a womans vagina and hips and the 2 sexy women in bed together naked kind of like 1800's lipstick lesbians. Winterhalter's painting I like so much is of a woman standing over a stream in a dress with a beautiful spacious landscape like Attendorfer painted in the 1500's with clouds, sky and mountians in the background. Their looks nothing erotic about the Winterhalter picture at first. I thought why is this in an erotic art history book? Is it because the woman has large breasts and look 5 feet 11 inches tall and has a strong healthy body? Then after about 15 seconds I noticed the reflection painted in the water, remember she is standing above a stream. In the reflection it reveals she is not wearing any panties underneath her dress. and through the water reflection we see what her vagina looks like. It's an optical illusion gag painting. I'm not sure he showed these paintings to anyone except maybe his students or friends. I remember they said these paintings were discovered later and were not known of during his lifetime or popularity. I don't think the royalty who hired him for portraits knew he made erotic art. I want to find a website or art book one day about the other 16 paintings in his erotic art collection!
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