Diaz de la Pena, Narzisso Virgilio

Diaz de la Pena, Narzisso Virgilio
(8/20/1808 Bordeaux-11/18/1876 Mentone) (France); aka Diaz, Narcisse
   Painter and lithographer. Largely a self-taught artist who was influenced by the work of Delacroix. Produced numerous landscape paintings featuring female nudes, mostly from mythology (Leda, Venus, etc.). Also created mythology and oriental-ist-themed works. Among his more distinctly erotic works is "The offering to Priapus" of 1860.
   Source: Benezit, vol. 4: pp. 870-873; DoA vol. 8: pp. 859-860; ThB IX 1913: p. 211.

Dictionary of erotic artists: painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers and illustrators. .

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