Posts tagged 19th century
Sonnet: To the Asshole
Dark, puckered hole: a purple carnation
That trembles, nestled among the moss,
the wet of love still covering the gentle curvation
Of the white ass, just to the royal eyelet.
Threads resembling milky tears there are spun;
Spray forced back by the south wind’s cruel threat
Across the small balls of brown shit has run,
To drip from the crack, which craves for it yet.
Not wishing the prick to have its bent,
My mouth too has often mated with that vent,
My sobbing tongue tried to devour the rose
Flowering in brown moisture. The chute unmanned,
It’s a heavenly jam-pot, the Promised Land
Which with other milk and honey overflows!
- Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, ca. 1871
(Transl. J. Murat and W. Gunn; see also)
François-Léon Benouville
The Wrath of Achilles
1847
(in “Nude Men” at the Leopold Museum, Vienna; see also)
Hippolyte Flandrin
Rene-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude Amede Dassy
1850
(via androphilia > homo-online)
Pages from An American Confession album filled out by Oscar Wilde in 1877 (via gently-tongued-by-stephen-fry)
Giovanni Boldini
Portrait of John Singer Sargent
ca. 1890
(via malebeautyinart)
Gustave Caillebotte
Man at his bath
1884
(via “MFA Boston deaccessions its way into a trade” @ MAN; see also)
Thomas Eakins
Photographic study for “The Wrestlers”
ca. 1895
(via Before The Dawn of Tom @ advocate.com; see also)
Gustave Le Gray
Bateaux quittant le Port du Havre
1856-57
(via “Gustave Le Gray Sails Away With a World Auction Record for Nineteenth-Century Photography” @ artinfo)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Diana
1892-93
(in the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art)
