Crazy For Feet Forum

I recently came across the french Pre-Raphaelite painter Francois Martin Kavel (1861-1931): one of his most frequent subjects is with the model in a crossed-ankle pose with a shoe dropped to the floor!!!
Here there are some examples:

Art is something I happen to know about. I wonder if he got the idea from Rubens?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ns_046.jpg

Or Ingres?

http://www.sightswithin.com/Jean.August ... s/Bath.jpg

Okay not that anyone will care, but that Ingres link I hastily posted is shitty copy. (I knew about two seconds after I hit post.) Here's the real one:

http://www.artble.com/imgs/9/1/5/414925 ... bather.jpg

Surely interesring...and somehow shows that...shoeplay lovers always existed?