Nursing in Style: Fashion versus Socio-medical Ideologies in Late Nineteenth-Century France.
This essay focuses on the innovative aspects of Édouard Debat-Ponsan's painting of 1886 entitled Before the Ball. As opposed to his contemporaries, the artist chose to depict breast-feeding amid a haute-bourgeois family, a subject matter that was no longer prevalent in French art after the beginning...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 536 - 565 |
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Spring2015
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