Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle)

Contemporary history seems to indicate that talented, successful and./or powerful men used these characteristics for sexual prowess. Delacroix? What about Manet? Degas? Did Gauguin taste the young flesh of Polynesian women he painted? Robbe-Grillet follows this line of thought down an interesting tableau in post-protectorate (i.e. post-colonial sexual subjugation) Morocco.