Breast feeding: one woman grieves over an empty cradle, while another woman contentedly breast-feeds her baby; representing the superiority of breast-feeding for the health of the baby. Colour lithograph by Pol Mathieu, 1949.

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Breast feeding: one woman grieves over an empty cradle, while another woman contentedly breast-feeds her baby; representing the superiority of breast-feeding for the health of the baby. Colour lithograph by Pol Mathieu, 1949.