About Peter Fendi
Austrian court painter, portraitist and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer, Fendi studied under Fischer, Maurer, and Lampi. In his youth Fendi was employed as a draughtsman recording the Imperial collection of antiquities and medals. In 1836 he was elected a member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Art. Almost all of his work is privately owned.
Fendi's erotic watercolours, originally created for a wealthy patron, were almost totally unknown to the general public until a set was published as lithographs, in an edition of 600, in Leipzig in 1910.
![Fendi Copies [c.1800s]](http://www.erotomane.co.uk/t/n/268883/94139crop0025.jpg "Fendi Copies [c.1800s]")
![Scènes Érotiques [c.1830s]](http://www.erotomane.co.uk/t/n/809335/95139Im%20Kornfeld%20-In%20The%20Cornfield-.jpg "Scènes Érotiques [c.1830s]")
![Die Vorstellung im Theater (The Theatrical Spectacle) [c.1830s]](http://www.erotomane.co.uk/t/n/809316/95139Die%20Vorstellung%20im%20Theater%2010.jpg "Die Vorstellung im Theater (The Theatrical Spectacle) [c.1830s]")