On Tuesday, the Rijksmuseum introduced {that a} uncommon condom courting from 1830 will go on show on the museum in its print room, the place it’s going to kind a part of a show on Nineteenth-century intercourse work and sexuality. It’ll keep on show by means of November.
The condom is almost 200 years previous and is regarded as created from a sheep’s appendix. It options an erotic picture depicting a nun and three clergyman and was seemingly a memento from a brothel. The piece, the museum stated in a press launch, is one in all 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 selection”—which the museum famous was a parody of a Greek fantasy, 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 contains famed works from Dutch masters like Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals.
The Rijksmuseum Print Room, which has some 750,000 prints, drawings, and pictures in its assortment, bought the condom at public sale six months in the past.
