On Tuesday, the Rijksmuseum introduced {that a} uncommon condom relationship from 1830 will go on show on the museum in its print room, the place it is going to kind a part of a show on Nineteenth-century intercourse work and sexuality. It would keep on show via November.
The condom is sort of 200 years previous and is regarded as produced from a sheep’s appendix. It options an erotic picture depicting a nun and three clergyman and was possible a memento from a brothel. The piece, the museum stated in a press launch, is certainly one of solely two such objects which have survived to the current day.
The picture, printed onto the condom, depicts a nun along with her legs aside and pointing at three clergymen. Beneath it’s the inscription Voilà mon choix—“That is my alternative”—which the museum famous was a parody of a Greek delusion, the Judgement of Paris.
The Rijksmuseum is the highest museum in Amsterdam and serves because the nationwide museum of the Netherlands, displaying round 1,000 objects from the over 1 million works in its assortment, which additionally consists of famed works from Dutch masters like Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals.
The Rijksmuseum Print Room, which has some 750,000 prints, drawings, and images in its assortment, bought the condom at public sale six months in the past.
