The Toilet of Belle

[Text by lar3ry gensch]

"The Toilet of Belle" (toilet.gif, 776x545x2, 12922 bytes) is another fanart drawing by Bob Ito <ito@[...]>. This picture is NOT part of the regular "Ito Galleries, Ink" series created for the readers of the rec.arts.disney newsgroup.

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In Bob's own words:

    [This is] a picture of Belle, which is a spoof of the following
    painting, Diego Valezquez's "Venus at her Mirror" (aka "The Toilet
    of Venus" and "The Rokeby Venus").  I actually got the idea from
    Ward Kimball's "Art Afterpieces," where he had his own version of
    Velazquez's painting (and a number of others), and it was too good
    to pass up.  :-)

For the benefit of the visitors to the Ito Galleries, Ink archive on the World Wide Web, I have included a JPEG of the original work, located at the address http://www.tiac.net/users/lar3ry/Ito/venus.jpg. I have no intention of making this available outside the web-site.