We're delighted to welcome a pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard into Getty's collection. Labille-Guiard was one of the leading women artists in 18th-century Europe. "Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children" shows a fashionably dressed woman with her two young sons. Applying pastels both wet, with a brush, and dry, with a stick, Labille-Guiard captures her sitters’ likenesses and the draperies with naturalism and vitality. This large work speaks to emerging views of motherhood and familial bonds in the 18th century. At the time, it was common practice for wealthy parents to send their newborns to wet nurses. The work was unlike anything that visitors to the Paris Salon of 1783, where the pastel was first exhibited, had likely seen before: a formal portrait of a named sitter openly nursing her child. Watch Emily Beeny, drawings curator, discuss this pastel. . . . 🏷️ #gettymuseum #pastel #art #portraiture #18thcentury #paris #family #news #artnews Image: "Portrait of M...