In case you were like, wow! Lesbianism was celebrated much earlier in history than I thought.
The painting portrays Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France, sitting in a bath, holding a ring. Her sister Julienne-Hyppolite-Joséphine sits beside her and pinches d'Estrées' right nipple.
Did sisters or women who were close, do a celebratory nipple pinch at news of pregnancy, or was the artist just being artsy? We will never know and I find that uncertainty more charming than a definite answer.
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