Jean Baptiste Greuze, A Girl With A Dead Canary, 1765
This painting by Greuze, exhibited in the salon of 1765, was interpreted by Diderot as a scarcely veiled allegory of lost virginity and Diderot praised the picture for offering a moral tale. In fact, eighteenth century visual language often deployed avian imagery as allegories of innocence, with an open bird cage as a sign of “promiscuity!”
Who was Denis Diderot?
http://www.iep.utm.edu/diderot/
Check Google Cultural Institute:
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/a-girl-with-a-dead-canary/kAHCWaaAJVQ2vQ?hl=en
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most of the time these women were girls and it was rape. we've come a long way, baby
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