Victor Joseph Chavet, French
“Wow, I Really Love What the Artist Is Doing Here. Using Simple Materials and a Monochromatic Color Scheme To Represent the Bleakness of Post-Industrial Society. Oh, Wait — I Think I’m Looking at the Back,” 1875
Oil on panel
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Info, and links that point to perhaps more info, about this artist can be found at his Google translated French Wikipedia page.
/// When sufficient clean paper he lacks,
a strapped artist will use fronts and backs.
For the thrift it provides
he will draw on both sides.
(Some Great Masters did this, not just hacks.)
/// The Connoisseur here is well-named.
The art he holds was double-framed.
On the front side one sees
landscapes of sky and trees.
He viewed nudes on the back unashamed.
/// So, because of this two-sides device,
he gets double the art for one price.
On the recto are nice
drawings, clean and precise,
while the artist used verso for vice.
/// To both sides of this piece he’s in thrall,
but the śex acts, some prudes, will appall.
When such folks come to call
he won’t worry at all,
he just hangs it up verso to wall.
/// His wife’s mom thinks that drawing is smut,
a position he dare not rebut.
So he hides it away
when the nag comes to stay.
(It shows two men entwined, neither cut.)