A Vogue for Breastfeeding in 18th-Century Europe

Attitudes toward breastfeeding changed in Europe in the 1700s. Learn how this unusual portrait, newly acquired by the Getty Museum, tells the story from curator Emily Beeny. Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children, 1783 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Learn more about Labille-Guiard, one of the great female artists of the 1700s: