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Reproduction of a Print after a Drawing of a Woman with Her Lover
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Scene from 'Le Bât' by Jean de La Fontaine. To prove his wife's infidelity, a painter painted a donkey on his wife's pubic area so that it would fade if she had contact with her lover. However, this lover made a copy of the painting so that he could repaint it after their tryst. The addition of a saddle was a mistake that allowed the husband to discover the infidelity after all. Reproduction of a proof print with sketches in the margins.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineReproductie van een prent naar een tekening van een vrouw met haar minnaar. 1880. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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