Bathing Beauties

Given the occasional focus at this blog on cleanliness and the history of beauty, hygeine, and bathing and soap themselves, it is long overdue to include a selection of art on the subject.  Courtesy of Madame Isis, we can now peek at some bathing beauties - and their methods of ablution (from immersion to bidet to foot washing to what may have been, as we sometimes phrase it, the "whore's bath") from the 17th century.  Some of these are beautiful!