sentences:  Some commentators, however, interpret it as more confrontational image, in which an abandoned mistress presents her baby to its father.The art historian Marcia Pointon has argued that the painting is deliberately paradoxical, playing on the conflict between new life and death.She suggests that the portrayal of the baby is influenced by medical images of fetuses surrounded by viscera within the body of woman, and that the woman's glazed, white and emaciated features suggest death.