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Romantic painting showed a fascination with death rather than with eros.

Of Théodore Géricault, only one erotic painting is known, Three Lovers[1]. It is considered his only erotic painting.

Of that other hero of French romantic painting, Eugène Delacroix, only few paintings which feature sensual nudes are generally known, the two versions of Mademoiselle Rose[2] and Etude de femme nue, couchée sur un divan, dit La femme aux bas blancs[3]. Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi[4] shows minimal, yet enticing cleavage and the Death of Sardanapalus[5] shows a fascination with the darker side of sensuality rather than the light-hearted sensuality of the rococo era. In Liberty Leading the People, the nudity of the breasts seems gratuitous.

In Spain, with the preromantic artist Goya, the situation was just the same. The Maja Desnuda is Goya's only foray into painted eroticism.

Possible candidates for exceptions are Henry Fuseli, another preromantic whose output in the erotic field is quite astounding, and Rodin, the French sculptor who would not have liked to be called a romantic but whose romantic agony sculptures showed a great deal of eroticism.

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