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Farewell to the Wet Nurse

Robert Delaunay

French, 1749–1814

after Etienne Aubry, (French, 1745–1781)

Farewell to the Wet Nurse

1779

Medium etching and engraving on paper
Dimensions image: 13 11/16 x 17 5/8 in. (34.8 x 44.8 cm) sheet: 17 1/16 x 19 5/8 in. (43.3 x 49.9 cm)
Object Number 1955.2356
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Robert Delaunay, Farewell to the Wet Nurse, 1779, etching and engraving on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.2356

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Products of the Perfected Civilization: French Life before 1789. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1975. Ivinski, Patricia, Harry C. Payne, Katherine Calley Galitz, and Richard Rand. Farewell to the Wet Nurse: Etienne Aubry and Images of Breast-Feeding in Eighteenth-Century France. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1998.

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