# Nipple tweaking painting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipple-tweaking-painting/339328>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipple-tweaking-painting/339328 "2006-01-10T16:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipple-tweaking-painting/339328/1 "2006-01-10T16:48:01Z")

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What’s the name of that famous painting of two women wearing nothing but pearl earrings, where the woman on the left is tweaking the nipple of the woman on the right? And why is the woman on the left tweaking the nipple of the woman on the right?

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipple-tweaking-painting/339328/2 "2006-01-10T16:54:10Z")

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“Gabrielle D’Estrées and One of Her Sisters”, as discussed [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=248318).