Nominally the Greek Polyenos and the Trojan Chryseis. Polyenos does not in fact figure as her lover in the Iliad or Odyssey, and is the artist's invention.
Though the males in these engravings usually have a six pack and over muscled back (drawn from the Farnese Hercules) - though not quite to the extreme shown here - , this image is unusual among them for hiding the man's erect penis.
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(c) Photograph by Erich Lessing
Headline
18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and
Source
Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives, Vienna, Austria
Image title
18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author andart collector Roger Peyrefitte were auctioned off anddispersed in 1981.Frontispice and engravings from"L'Aretin by Agostino Carracci,or erotic postures.."after Carracci's paintings by J.J. Coigny(1761-1809).