France

6 and 9 of Clubs
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent cards reveal humorous erotic scenes:
– 6 of Clubs: a lapping dog pleasures a lady stretched out with her dresses lifted up.
– 9 of Clubs: foreplay of a naked couple sitting on the edge of a bed.

Erotic playing card with a secret, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
When held to the light, the card reveals an erotic scene in transparency: a reader lying in his natural state holds up his parasol with the aid of his erect organ.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with a secret, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
When held to the light, the card reveals an erotic scene in transparency: a masked lady raises her leg high before a gentleman with spectacles who attentively examines her vulva.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
When held up to the light, the card reveals an erotic scene: three busty ladies pulling a priapic faun by the tail.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Pochoir-colored lithograph, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene of farandole debauchery between two ladies and two gentlemen.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene: a close-up rear view of penetration.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic urolagnic scene: a fireman urinating on a lady's crotch while a complicit valet holding a basin looks on.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with stencil, blank verso.
When held up to the light, the card reveals an oriental erotic scene in transparency: a Zouave penetrates a beautiful lady with raised legs.
A curiosity!

Erotic transformation playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held to light, reveals an erotic scene: a hooded monk frolics with a nude woman wearing two laurel crowns on her head and in her hand.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with a secret, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with stencil, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene: a man with an erect member holds on his shoulder a woman in her natural state.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing cards - Three of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a chimney sweep in a hat and clogs, hard like a stag, assaults a lady sitting on a chair, dressed hitched up, who tries to withstand him.
A curiosity!

Disguised erotic playing cards – Four aces
[France ca 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm | 4 playing cards
Disguised erotic playing cards, maker unknown, produced in France circa 1860. Lithographs colored with stencil, versos blank.
In the light, the transparent cards reveal humorous erotic scenes:
- Ace of Spades: an intellectual, with a beard and glasses, sharpens the tip of his virile member on a grindstone driven by a young, naked woman while another, at the same stone, brandishes a pair of scissors.
- Ace of Hearts: a clothed man flees, straddling his monstrous member, before two laughing, exhibitionist and flatulist young ladies.
- Ace of Diamonds: a good nun, dressed...

Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
When held up to the light, the card reveals an erotic scene: a lady performing fellatio on a man wearing a pointed cap.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Hand-colored lithograph with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene: an erect priest blowing into a condom, kneeling before a lady with widely spread thighs.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Hand-colored lithograph with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene: a gentleman about to penetrate a milkmaid who is overturning her pail; in the background a cow urinates merrily.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Pochoir-colored lithograph, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic urophilic scene: a lady, a horse and valets expelling their urine in great jets.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held up to the light, reveals an erotic scene in transparency: a gentleman wearing a kippah assailing a lady surrounded by beer tankards.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with stencil, blank verso.
When held up to the light, the card reveals an erotic scene in transparency: a gentleman wearing high socks penetrates a lady with raised legs who is also wearing stockings.
A curiosity!

Erotic playing card with a secret, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with stencil, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene: a woman holds the erect member of a man who is urinating into a bottle.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing cards - King of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady, kneeling at the feet of the King, performs an acupuncture procedure on his erect member.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing cards – King of Diamonds

[France] [ca 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm | one playing card

Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: the King's virile attributes are visible.
A real curio!

Secret erotic playing cards - King of Spades
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: the King's virile attributes are visible.
A curiosity!

Four of Spades
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a handsome man with a moustache is straddled by a lady with her hair in a bun, while a dog – with its four paws in the air – pleasures them both.

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Secret erotic playing cards - Jack of Diamonds
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady with her dress hitched up appears next to a valet who strokes her.
A curiosity!

Secret erotic playing cards - Jack of Spades
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady is sitting underneath the valet and is caressing him.
A curiosity!

Jack of Hearts
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady is sitting underneath the valet and is caressing him.

Queen of Diamonds
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
Secret erotic playing card,
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a lady urinates in a pail.

Secret erotic playing cards - Jack of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a valet, with visible genitalia, screws a lady with her shirt hitched up.
A curiosity!

Original drawing in watercolor and pencil.
View of Socoa, a seaside resort famous for its beaches, in the bay of Saint Jean de Luz.
This watercolor drawing was later added to a set of landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and wash. Executed in the first quarter of the 19th century, these drawings and prints give a panorama of the major towns and resorts appreciated by the European aristocracy (as here Socoa), but also the places that mark the "Grand Tour" An obligatory journey of the post-Napoleonic nobility who came to Italy to make an artistic and bucolic pilgrimage.