Щегольство и либертинаж в русских народных картинках

Abstract

The article discusses the representations of fops – male and female – in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Russian folk pictures (lubok) from the Rovinskii collection. Most of these range from frivolous to blandly erotic, though they are invariably humorous and mainly serve satirical purposes. With a number of illustrations the author demonstrates the German, French and English origins of these pictures.