Thank you, Steven. Margaret Atwood has a few things to say as well.

Jones is highlighting the special intimacy of feelings in the closeness of a Mother bathing her child.

Yes, first impressions can be powerful in lingering influence, but it is often wise and well-advised to give pause and try to step back for considered reflection on contextual meaning, too, to add nuance. I like the comment of British art critic Christopher P. Jones on the special female viewpoint in the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt’s work like “The Child Bath” (1893): “Cassatt’s paintings are most often indoors, conforming to the restrictions placed on women’s free access to public spaces and to real-life models.”