Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French
Sir Reginald, With That Weird Face He Always Makes When He’s Peeing in His Suit of Armor, ca. 1868-1870
Oil on canvas
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/// “Man in Armor” or “Man of Arms Sitting”—
he sits down since the armor’s ill-fitting.
He’s pinched hard standing up,
(should have worn a hard cup);
when he walks you can hear metal gritting.
/// When this armor was made, after all,
average soldiers were not quite as tall
as this model who posed
for Corot indisposed,
for the codpiece was painfully small.
/// Metal armor was forged to protect
knights from foes’ weapons’ piercing effect.
But an unplanned defect
was the harm, indirect,
caused when sharp iron plates intersect.