Maurin, Nicolaus Eustache

(3/6/1799 Perpignan-1850 Paris) (France)

   Portrait painter and lithographer. He trained in Henri Regnault's studio. For much of his career his work focused on female nudes (sometimes even getting in trouble with the authorities) and "obscene" pictures, such as "The unfaithful Odalisque."

   Reproductions: Dalliance; engraving; Hur-wood, 1975: p. 190 . Please remove your trousers, Miss; c1830; Brusendorff, 1965b: n.p. [B]. Woman servicing three men [in the style of]; c1840; oil; Naomi 1998: p. 147 .

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 9: p. 593; ThB XXIV 1930: p. 283.