No, I’m not looking for the latest smut.
However, can anybody give me titles (TITLES ONLY) of very sexy Fine art, from the 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries?
Fine art Paintings only, please
You mean like erotic art? Katsushika Hokusai had a whole series called “Young Pines”, including, e.g., “Intimate Couple on a Boat”.
L’Origine du Monde
—Gustave Courbet, 1866
The Birth of Venus
by Bottecelli
by Poussin
by Boucher
by Bouguereau
by Cabanel
by Duval
by Gérôme
Jeez dude, some of us like a little foreplay first 
Tsar Alexander II had an immense collection of erotica, including his own drawing of his mistress Katya.
When I was a little kid, we had a book in which was a photo of a classical marble sculpture. It was two figures: A man (who may have been wearing a winged helmet) standing with an upraised sword, and a prostrate nude woman on the ground, with one arm raised as in a defensive manner. As little as I was, I was fascinated by the most perfect breasts ever committed to stone. I’ve never been able to find that statue.
Chloé is probably the only one that is hanging in a pub. She has her own bar at Young & Jackson in Melbourne.
Deleted
Why not?
I give you Manet’s Olympia (1863) Olympia (1863) (NSFW link blurred). It caused much consternation when unveiled as the first nude painting that wasn’t Madonna or a classical goddess; it was a prostitute!
I used this with two separate audiences. One was a Civil War roundtable where I talked about what else was happening during that time period, and the controversy it caused. The old gents in the audience squirmed when I showed it on the screen.
The second was in a web development class for college students. We were discussing what was appropriate and legal for them to post to their college-funded personal web pages: no gambling, fund-raising, businesses, hate-crimes, etc. Another was no pornography, so I showed this, asking if this was a critical discussion of the painting would that be allowed? Of course would be! That also had a few students squirming in their seats; they were adults after all, but gosh this was a nude woman! In fact, I had one class survey response saying how much they hated being exposed to such pornography and it was a terrible class because of that. Oh my!
by Edward Poynter:
Cave of the Storm Nymphs
At Low Tide
Andromeda
Wild Blossom
The Vision of Endymion
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau:
The Bather or Baigneuse (1864)
The Bather or Baigneuse (1870)
The Bather or Baigneuse (1879)
After the Bath
The Wave
Les Deux Baigneuses (1884)
L’Aurore or Dawn
Soir or Evening
Nymphaeum
Biblis
Seated Nude
The Invasion
The Return of Spring
The Oreads
Nymphs and Satyr
Just about anything with “Venus”, “Psyche”, “Andromeda”, “Danae”, “The Source”, or “Odalisque” in the title.
Manet also gave us Luncheon on the Grass Luncheon on the Grass, featuring a nude woman (probably the same model as in Olympia) having a picnic with two fully dressed men.
Bear in mind that in the timeframe given by the OP, venereal disease was a horrific prospect, weighted counter to sexual desire. A thread titled “Art. Classic icky” would feature Otto Dix, Hans Belmer and Egon Schiele
Sorry that happened to you. There were always people who objected to art that doesn’t exalt the human form into the ridiculous. It’s not a MeToo thing: Louis Napoleon threatened to run his dress sword through Olympia.
That said, most everything by Balthus should be Shitcanned. And Ed Kienholz’ Illegal Operation should be installed at the steps of the Supreme Court.
Reminds me also of Michelangelo’s “Leda and the Swan”, but that is too pre-classic (according to the OP); plus, not every (even nude) mythological figure is automatically supposed to be “sexy”—it depends. (Being raped by a god is definitely some kind of sexual symbolism, though; cf. Yeats’ poem).
One iteration of Hylas and the Nymphs as seen on Wikipedia [spoiler]Hylas - Wikipedia is interesting as several of the nymphs are not shown as exposed and are staring at the beautiful man without him staring back, although several of them are examples of the typical gaze so often complained of.
I don’t find it the sexiest, per se, because many of them have the weirdly-shaped chins so often found in Preraphaelite paintings, but it is both interesting and less unacceptable than the sculpture of the same myth found in the Tate gallery in London. Because this Hylas looks like a fully grown man, whereas in the sculpture he is almost certainly underage.
Carlos Schwabe, Spleen et Idéal, 1907
Felicien Rops - [spoiler]https://www.wikiart.org/en/felicien-rops[/spoiler]
Mihaly Zichy - [spoiler]https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mihaly-zichy_n_5269182[/spoiler]
PLEASE NOTE: Above two links contain NSFW material
Cupid and Psyche Cupid and Psyche, by Jaques-Louis David.
[Moderating]
If this was meant to avoid trouble with the rules, I thank you for your consideration, but there’s not actually any problem with links, provided that they follow the two-click rule.
