{"id":4731,"date":"2009-03-25T01:56:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2009-03-25T01:56:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:56:01","slug":"the-white-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/25\/the-white-peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekadence.info\/uploads\/media\/340_02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4732\" title=\"white_peacock.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/white_peacock.jpg\" alt=\"white_peacock.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/white_peacock.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/white_peacock-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The White Peacock (1910).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A typical piece of mysterious erotica by Austrian illustrator and pornographer <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Franz_von_Bayros\" target=\"_blank\">Franz von Bayros<\/a> (1866\u20131924). Like all good Decadents, Bayros used peacocks and peacock feathers as decorative motifs in his pictures but this is the first I&#8217;ve seen where the peacock itself is the result of amorous attention. If that sounds overly-perverse, you haven&#8217;t seen his <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Franz_von_Bayros_Ex-libris_of_Sweet_Snail.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sweet Snail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/16\/kafkas-porn-unveiled\/\">Kafka\u2019s porn unveiled<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/29\/the-art-of-ejaculation\/\">The art of ejaculation<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/24\/the-art-of-felicien-rops-1833-1898\/\">The art of F\u00e9licien Rops, 1833\u20131898<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Peacock (1910). A typical piece of mysterious erotica by Austrian illustrator and pornographer Franz von Bayros (1866\u20131924). Like all good Decadents, Bayros used peacocks and peacock feathers as decorative motifs in his pictures but this is the first I&#8217;ve seen where the peacock itself is the result of amorous attention. If that sounds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/25\/the-white-peacock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The White Peacock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,48],"tags":[1202,1013,298,444],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-illustrators","tag-felicien-rops","tag-franz-kafka","tag-franz-von-bayros","tag-peacocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}