People In Famous Artworks Who Just Really Have To Pee

Peeing! Everybody does it. Mostly in the privacy of their own W.C.s, but sometimes, in art.

Men, women, boys, girls, cupids, cherubs -- everyone needs to take a tinkle now and again. And if a famous artist happens to document the leakage, more power to you. There are many ways to urinate in art. These are some:

Sometimes you spot a wreath and all you see is a challenge.

Lorenzo Lotto, "Venus and Cupid," 1480–1556
Lorenzo Lotto, "Venus and Cupid," 1480–1556
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Sometimes your pee defies gravity.

Hirokage print
Hirokage print
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Sometimes you're a baby and you're getting wine drunk and you forgot your diaper so ...

Guido Reni
Guido Reni
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Sometimes you're so. Freaking. Terrified.

Rembrandt, "Rape of Ganymede," 1635
Rembrandt, "Rape of Ganymede," 1635
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Sometimes it just takes too damn long to get your dress on.

Fransois Boucher, "La Toilette intime," 1760s
Fransois Boucher, "La Toilette intime," 1760s
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Sometimes you see a crescent moon and get all whimsical.

Pieter Brueghel the Younger, "Pissing at the Moon", 1564
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, "Pissing at the Moon", 1564
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Sometimes you give zero f**ks.

"Indecency" Cartoon print, 1799
"Indecency" Cartoon print, 1799
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Sometimes you just can't stop partying.

Titian, "The Bacchanal of the Andrians," 1523
Titian, "The Bacchanal of the Andrians," 1523
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Sometimes any vaguely toilet-shaped object will work as a urination device.

Hetaera urinating into a skyphos. Tondo of a red-figure kylix in the kind of the Foundry Painter, ca. 480 BC.
Hetaera urinating into a skyphos. Tondo of a red-figure kylix in the kind of the Foundry Painter, ca. 480 BC.
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Sometimes you just pee on a tree.

Rembrandt, "Woman urinating under a tree," 1631
Rembrandt, "Woman urinating under a tree," 1631
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Trees definitely work.

Adriaen van Ostade, "Der pissende Bauer," 1660s
Adriaen van Ostade, "Der pissende Bauer," 1660s
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They really do.

Jacques Callot, "The Peasant Squatting"
Jacques Callot, "The Peasant Squatting"
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Sometimes you just have to pee on the go.

Erotic Mosaic in Timgad (ca. 100 A.D.)
Erotic Mosaic in Timgad (ca. 100 A.D.)
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Sometimes, it's God who's peeing on you.

Orazio Gentileschi, "Danae and the Shower of Gold," 1621
Orazio Gentileschi, "Danae and the Shower of Gold," 1621
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Sometimes you want to show off your stream.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, "Fitting Colors of Floral Decorations," 1831
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, "Fitting Colors of Floral Decorations," 1831
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And this has been people in famous artworks who just really have to pee.

Jerome Duquesnoy, "Little man Pee," 1388
Jerome Duquesnoy, "Little man Pee," 1388
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