Museum of Ancient Paintings, Portici
We stumbled across this painting and thought we would share it with you all.
The Portici museum must have been a sight to see, if all those paintings were on display as shown.
That is assuming you could get a "permesso" to enter.
The painting is titled:
Museum of Ancient Paintings, Palais of Portici Naples.
It is a painting by Thomas Rowlandson c 1800.
The Victoria and Albert Museum describe it as:
A satirical watercolour showing a woman with three
young men looking at wall frescoes.
Two older men stand behind the group.
Rowlandson shows a woman admiring a display of risqué Roman fresco paintings
while the men surrounding her all look lecherously at her.
The crux of the
satire is whether their visit is a cultural or erotic pastime.
Photo © Victoria and
Albert Museum, London. Museum inventory number DYCE.799.
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