Щегольство и либертинаж в русских народных картинках = Foppishness and Libertinage in Russian Folk Pictures

Foppishness and libertinage in Russian folk pictures. The article discusses the representations of fops – male and female – in eighteenthand early nineteenth-century Russian folk pictures (lubok) from the Rovinskii collection. Most of these range from frivolous to blandly erotic, though they are invariably humorous and mainly serve satirical purposes. With a number of illustrations the author demonstrates the German, French and English origins of these pictures.