Interior with Figures Painting

The history of Erotic art is mostly a history of small works, probabaly becasue they can be quickly removed and hidden away as circumstances dictate. Generally spaeking I have tried to move away from this tradtion and create works of a moderate to large size. But in 2022, I became interested in the work of the early 19th century French painter Louis - Leopold Boilly who mostly specialised in portraits, but in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution found himself before a court obliged to explain a series of genre paintings he had made of what was considered at the time an erotic nature. Most of these were quite small is size and were heavily reliant on the depiction of intimate domestic spaces. I became interested on the curious enclosed quality of these images and attempted to create something similar with the usual paraphenalia of my larger works combined with familiar furniture and frames. These pictures were an experiment which I enjoyed but will not be repeating in a hurry as the pictures took almost as long as larger easel paintings and while as a group, they might display well, and as a surprise to find on a guest bedroom wall they may be an amusing surprise or an ot perhaps an inspiration hung in a 'master' bedroom, but I think, generally, I prefer to work at a more comfortable scale