Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870) was a French artist who achieved early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures to massive battle scenes. His lithographs and paintings are in the collections of museums throughout France.
Sarah Burns (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia, 1989); Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (New Haven, 1996); Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004), and (with John Davis) American Art to 1900: A Documentary History (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2009).
“Lady Fanny Woodcock” is the sobriquet of a respected collector of erotic books researcher of their bibliographic history.
