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Children

Children painted by people who clearly liked them. Goya's boy in red with his magpie and his cats, Homer's schoolboys playing snap the whip, Madame Roulin holding up her baby, Rubens's small son at his mother's side, Gainsborough's cottage children gathering wood, Utamaro's mother and children by a screen, and Fragonard's two sisters. Few of them sat still for long.

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The Two Sisters Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769–70 Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678) Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1635 Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1787 Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, 1786 Boy with a Lute Frans Hals, ca. 1625 Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895) Auguste Renoir, 1878 Madame Roulin and Her Baby Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Roland William Merritt Chase, ca. 1902 Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra: Folio from a dispersed Ramayana series Workshop active in the First generation after Nainsukh, ca. 1780 Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792) Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), 1787–88 Mother and Child by the Sea Johan Christian Dahl, 1830 Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers) Thomas Gainsborough, 1787 Breton Brother and Sister William Bouguereau, 1871 Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman Aelbert Cuyp, ca. 1652–53 The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil Edouard Manet, 1874 First Steps, after Millet Vincent van Gogh, 1890 Snap the Whip Winslow Homer, 1872 José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), ca. 1810 The Drummond Children Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808–9 Roman Girl at a Fountain Léon Bonnat, 1875 A Young Girl with Daisies Auguste Renoir, 1889 Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), 1787–88 The Painter's Daughter Mary (1750–1826) Copy after Thomas Gainsborough, mid-19th century Young Mother Gazing at Her Child William Bouguereau, 1871