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La Femme Damnée

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Description

A Venus writhes with pleasure. Fleet, released into the sky. She is being "devoured" by three androgynous figures. They could well be sexless angels, giving the goddess mystical pleasure. Or they could be women, which adds to this work by Octave Tassaert one more reason why it was so scandalous in a time of extreme bourgeois puritanism. Inspired in “La Femme Damnée (Condemned woman) ” is an ironic title, of course. So much pleasure, so much happiness would deserve eternal damnation. This painting is in many ways a religious painting, very different from other examples of Tassaert's erotic art, very explicit paintings in which there is not so much elegance. Tassaert's work was always uncomfortable for those bourgeois eyes of mid-19th century France. Perhaps that is why his career never took off and, ignored, he ended up leaving the art world, so full of tricksters, frauds and climbers, to die drunk and ill after a tragic suicide at his home in Paris.

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