Firmin Baes. The young Girl and the Cabbage (‘La petite fille au chou’), ca. 1903 (private collection, Antwerp).

Pastel, oil and watercolour on board: 85 x 70.5 cm. From the Caroline & Maurice Verbaet Collection. When this work was made, it was custom in Belgium and the Netherlands to tell children that babies were born out of a cabbage.

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