Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Étienne Jeaurat, la conduite des filles de joie à la Salpêtrière 1745 (1755)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is my favourite painting by Jeaurat:

http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/collections/le-carnaval-des-rues-de-paris

Note the "female" drummer who, in my opinion, is a male military drummer dressed up as woman (remember, it's carnival...)

C. von Grumpy said...

Thank you for this and your whole blog by the way. "Filles de joie" means prostitutes ;o)
Cyrille