Mihály Von Zichy < LOVE >

Mihály Von Zichy (Zala, Hungary, October 15, 1827 - St. Petersburg, Russia, February 28, 1906) was a painter recognised during the first boom of Art Nouveau. He founded a society to support painters in need. 

His erotic drawings have a particular warm intensity in which both members of the couple seem equal partners. He titled this series of pictures simply 'LOVE'. They represent studies & attempts to objectively portray eroticism.

Digitisha, the copulatory mode the Swahilinos or Shirazinos, Arabized inhabitants of Zanzibar and certain regions of the adjacent mainland.

Swahilinos women know how to execute the digitisha, moving as if she were grinding corn.

Digitisha; the future millers are trained for forty days like the women before them.

Back posture; the supine woman on top of the man. The Hawaiians called this position 'missionary'; the position preferred by the Protestant missionaries who tried to convert them.

Quadrupeds; the jointing must be fulfilled in this manner, because the horizontal position of the chest and the elevation of the kidneys facilitate the direction of the seed.

Saw; legs on the shoulder, a pose is between acrobatic and aesthetic, although good, tiring.

Another posture that has foraged the erotic imagination but is difficult to achieve.

Lateral face to face; the main advantage of this position is comfort, though movement is restricted.

Sleeping on the couch; a teenage couple copulating on the couch missionary.

Sitting on the couch; a couple in the heat a love affair, possibly in the afternoon around five.

Desvirgamiento; the man defiles the intact female. Observe his contemplative, tender expression, and her grimace of pain when she loses her virginity.

Love in the forest; this sexual conjunction is suggestive of violence; the umbrella on the floor as also the basket; her attitude of pleading defense, but not rejection; him half-dressed; all in the urgency of passion.

For sexual intercourse to be enriched, consolidated and perfected a variety of positions are necessary.

Cunnilingus (the licking, sucking and kissing of the female genitalia) on the study table. Cunilincto is the proper word from the Latin cunnilinctus (cunnus, vulva, linctus) & licking (linggere).

Cunnilingus; sitting on his face.

Cunnilingus; with her vulva thrust upwards. 

Cunnilingus; the man accesses the woman's vulva with his mouth from behind; easier and more comfortable.

Cunnilingus; for the young explorer.

Cunnilingus; before coitus.

Sapphic Cunnilingus.

Fellation, from the Latin fellatio, sucking the penis, kissing it, licking it, and so on.

Fellatio; the aunt and the nephew; keeping it in the family.

A pregnant fellatrix with a boy who is masturbating her with his feet.

Pre-fellation; she grabs his penis with her left hand and with her right she is weighing his testicles. She will end up fellating him. In her excitement she imprisons his right foot tightly against her crotch.

Teat sucking fascination.  

The fruit vendor in full libidinous crowding with a little boy.

The mother delicately palpates the genitalia of her child; the presence of a supposed absence, that of the sexual in the child. These first sexual impressions of childhood are hetero generated.

Tender sexuality; pleased as he holds his penis, plays with it and enjoys. It has been scientifically proven that infantile masturbatory behavior only occurs if the child has a good emotional relationship with his mother.

Happiness is in your hands. Young people play and have fun.

Masturbating in the bathroom.

Mutual masturbation, reciprocal manipulation by the hand of others technically considered is not a masturbatory act, but manual intercourse.

Precautionary measure; in order to prevent oral invasion, she prevents priapic advance with her left hand.

Precautionary measure.

The old lady and the painter; she joyful, he smiling; a vivid representation of senescent sexuality.

Father, mother and child; the woman, the double source. As a mother, she nurtures life, and as a lover gives pleasure; a libidinous presentation of the nuclear family.

Intercourse, not with a woman who is six or seven months pregnant, but with a woman who is about to give birth.

The old satyr; the old ecclesiastical preceptor and host, in his half-bundled pants. He manipulates his frightened victim with his right hand.

After the enjoyment, hygiene, asepsis, satisfaction, calmness; and then again, the eternal return, the ardor, the pleasure.

The Kiss.

The penis in a state of rest, sagging, being played with and erect, as it looks proudly back up.

The comments accompanying the drawings are culled from the book 
'The Erotic Art of Mihály Zichy' by Marcus Aurelius Denegri (Lima, 1938) 
(Kavia Cobaya Editores, 1999. Limited edition - numbered 250 copies)