"The Putti Electrisor Late 19th Century / Fairground Game"
French school from the end of the 19th century. Putto inflicting an electric shock on his fellow creature. Oil on cardboard, mounted on canvas. This painting with a subject as rare as it is curious illustrates the use of the famous Van Narum machine with a Leyden bottle can be understood as an amusing allegory of electricity 24 x 30 cm. At the end of the 19th century this principle was taken up by fairgrounds to make an attraction called the Electrifier which, by gradually increasing the voltage, allowed competitions of courage. 
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