Sujet

Farewell To The Wet Nurse, 1776-77. Creator: Etienne Aubry.

Légende

Farewell To The Wet Nurse, 1776-77. An elegantly dressed mother takes her child from the woman on the left, who has nursed him from early infancy. Placing babies in the care of hired wet nurses—preferably young women from rural areas, as the painting’s rustic setting suggests—was a common practice among wealthy French families in the eighteenth century. The child’s gesture and anguished expression reflect the affectionate relationship that could result from this arrangement.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A23_251

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,1Mo (2,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,7cm / 4960 x 4095 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors wealth female holding women woman people male child children group looking job man men riding rider family painting infant baby babies country French France service parent guy occupation watching museum color separation mother infancy wealthy motherhood location exchange century affluence profession parenting responsibility arrangement farewell childcare concept return anguish trauma art museum exchanging returning handing over mum replacement substitute oil Painting Colour child care Museum of Art wet nurse 18th century Eighteenth Century sidesaddle naturalism Oil on canvas side-saddle wet-nurse outside portrait oil side saddle Etienne Aubry Aubry Etienne Oil on canvas 1770s Clark Art Institute Heritage Art Aubry ?tienne ?tienne Aubry