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Parents Happiness, Jean-Eugene Buland, Oil on canvas, 1903.

Parents Happiness, Jean-Eugene Buland, Oil on canvas, 1903.

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  1. You know baby was screaming hungry a second ago. Finally latched on and now all three can have a moment of exhausted peace. With a three month old at home now I can feel the subjects of this art reaching through time at me. A shared experience of exhaustion that every parent knows.

  2. I’m a little disappointed that the only discussion happening on this piece is about the nsfw aspect.

    I think the title reframes the entire piece for me. The title forces me to think harder about what is going on in the piece.

    Happiness. Look at their faces. Pensive? Exhausted? They don’t wear their happiness on their faces, their happy is encapsulated in the little human being they made. He will get up and go back to work and she will lose her beauty to exhaustion and breast feeding but for a moment they hey to reflect on what it’s all h about and who is all for. Their happiness.

  3. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with all the people on this post who are transfixed on the breast of the mother. There is such beauty and depth to this piece, but some of you are acting like children, and fail to see it.

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