- Diaz de la Pena, Narzisso Virgilio
- (8/20/1808 Bordeaux-11/18/1876 Mentone) (France); aka Diaz, NarcissePainter 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. Eugene C. Burt.