La Queue au Lait, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1796

"la queue au lait" ("queuing for milk")this painting shows a woman distributing milk to poor children in 1796, a year during which food supplies were scarce. Date: 1796. Medium: oil on paper mounted on canvas. "La queue au lait" de L.L. Boilly (musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris)