This article accompanies the fable
The Whore's Revenge


Charpillon's point of view? Fuseli's famous painting The Nightmare from 1781

Henry Fuseli, like la Charpillon, was Swiss-born but moved to London in 1765, well after Casanova's escapades there, but this painting neatly captures the Charpillon point of view: Casanova as some incubus sitting on her chest. Of course there's a horse in the room too.