In that same year he dared the Inquisition, and scandalized and delighted Spain, by painting the shapely back and buttocks of The Rokeby Venus, so called from its long stay in the home of an English family that bought it for £500 and sold it to the London National Gallery for £45,000. A suffragette, angry at such an exposure of trade secrets, slashed that rosy back in six places, but it was sewed up again alluringly.
