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‘Before’

Creator

William Hogarth

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764) · 1697–1764

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Date
1736-12-15
Medium
paper
Institution
Rijksmuseum
Object ID
RP-P-1962-389

Hogarth’s distinctive taste for satire is shown in these pendants of a well-to-do couple before and after sex. The attitude of the protagonists and the chaotic look of the room signal, however, the brutality of the act. The overturned table reveals a second image on the wall, with a laughing Cupid pointing at the spent rocket he was lighting in the image hanging above.

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