Sunday, November 4, 2012

Painting Depicting a Couple in an Erotic Embrace in Bedchambers of Qajar Persia

Painting
Qajar period, Persia.
Date: mid-19th Century.
Materials and technique: gouache on paper, mounted on album pages, colored borders.
size: 295 x 205 mm.
Sold online on Bonhams auction.
Source: [1]
نقاشی اروتیک دوره قاجار - حراج بونامز
This artwork seems to belong to Qajar period. Love making scenes were usually veiled in the paintings of Safavid Period. Such erotic scenes were perhaps adopted by Iranian artists from Indian Kama Sutra illustrations as they became familiar with these forms when Persia started having more direct cultural interactions with Mughal Empire.