Georges-François Guiaud, French
“I’ve Never Been To a Gender Reveal Party Quite Like This One. I Assume This Means It’s a Girl?,” ca. 1880
Oil on canvas
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Sparse info about this artist can be found here and here (Catalogue Note). He currently has no Wikipedia page.
Google translated Catalogue Note
/// For a gender reveal I would think
we’d see more of pastel blue or pink.
The two women who strip,
(one a Blood: one a Crip),
prove this party’s devoted to kink.
/// No, these strippers do not have the answers.
You’d do better to ask necromancers
if the babe’s girl or boy.
So instead let’s enjoy
the gyrations of these Harem Dancers.
/// If this party is “Gender Reveal”
it may be a whole different deal
than a fetus’s gender.
A young “girl,” sweet and tender
may have organs he seeks to conceal.
/// As the host had explained to the guests,
it is not good enough to have breasts.
It proves nothing to show ‘em;
men can buy ‘em or grow ‘em.
We rely on far more stringent tests.
/// A more accurate way of detecting
boy or girl: When it’s born, try inspecting.
We’re consultin’ the Sultan,
and this dance should result in
several more wives who’ll soon be expecting.
/// The great Sultan (the one with the beard),
is so lusty he ought to be feared.
But his twelve dozen mates
get such infrequent “dates,”
that they’re open for anything weird.
/// When a wife’s turn arrives, copulation
has the goal of an insemination.
If her child is a son,
then her breeding is done.
She has bolstered the Prince population.