What is "pornocrates"

Pornocrates, Pornokratès, La dame au cochon, or The Lady with the Pig is a work by the Belgian artist Félicien Rops, created in 1878. It is part of the collection of the Musée provincial Félicien Rops in Namur, Belgium.

The work in Namur is 75 cm high and 48 cm wide, executed in gouache and watercolor paint heightened with pastel on paper. Reproductions of the work ( soft-ground etchings, heliogravures and aquatints, sometimes colored) are also present in other museum collections, such as the LACMA, the National Museum of Western Art and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.