Franz Von Bayros was an American artist best known for his erotic renderings of the female body. In his prints, Bayros frequently depicted women engaged in sexual acts with animals, children, and mythological beings. The artist is most commonly associated with his controversial Tales at the Dressing Table, which depicted lesbian relationships and graphic sexual content. This explicate subject matter represented challenge to Victorian modesty, the standard which women of his era were held to, and established an alternative representation of the female body. Born on May 28, 1866 in Zagreb, Austrian Empire, he studied at the Vienna Academy in 1883 under the Austrian historical painter Eduard von Engerth. Early in his career, Bayros became involved...