Camille Clovis Trouille (24 October 1889 – 24 September 1975) was a French artist known for paintings of erotic and anti-clerical subjects.
The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal.
This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of work: Trouille's other common subjects were sex, as shown in Lust (1959), a portrait of the Marquis de Sade sitting in the foreground of a landscape decorated with a tableau of various perversions, and a "madly egoistic bravado" employed in a self-mocking style.
[3] The simple style and lurid colouring of Trouille's paintings echo the lithographic posters used in advertising in the first half of the 20th century.
In 2019 the National Leather Association International established an award named after Trouille for creators of surrealistic erotic art.