La Jument du compère Pierre
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"La Jument du compère Pierre" (The Mare of Peasant Pierre) is a story by Jean de La Fontaine, one of his Contes et nouvelles en vers .
Father Jean the priest, who lusts after the beautiful wife of a poor peasant, promises the peasant that he will turn his wife into a mare, to help him work the fields. This will only work if she is naked and when all stay quiet.
The tale was the subject of a painting by Pierre Subleyras, which was shown at the The Triumph Of Eros At London's Hermitage Rooms exhibition.
145) of which three, including The Pack Saddle, share common subjects with Subleyras. However, the latter's treatment of the subject is more explicit and immediate than Vleughels' painting and Subleyras' tight composition and portrayal of an ...
Two other La Fontaine fables by Subleyras, The Pack Saddle and The Mare of Godfather Pierre, are in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.2 The intimate scale of these racy subjects undoubtedly contributed to their popularity, and Subleyras seems ...
Hogarth, France and British art: the rise of the arts in ... - Page 92
But there were also some surprisingly frank scenes of erotica being painted by French artists at this time, such as Pierre Subleyras's The Packsaddle {Le bdt) (Private collection).51 Although this dates from about 1735, it is unusually explicit in ...
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