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A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.

A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).

A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.

A husband wearily pampers his pregnant wife. Lithograph by F. Bouchot, 1838.

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Marriage - France

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Images about Marriage - France

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A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.

An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).

Marriage - France

Images from the collections

Images about Marriage - France

Works from the collections

A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.

An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).

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