Philippe-Jacques van Bree, Belgian
“Honey, You Can’t Go Out in Public Just Wearing That. Here — Put This On,” 1833
Oil on panel
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Artist info is pointed to in my comment at a prior blog entry.
Grandmother: Three coins? That’s all your earned from a full day of posing for that cheapskate painter?
Mother: That’s alright, dear. You can always rejoin our respectable family business as a harlot.
/// Back in Europe, a letter in scarlet
might apply to a working-girl harlot.
That is not true today
in the U. S. of A.,
where a sex-tape can make her a starlet.