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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Daughter of William Page (Probably Mary Page)

William Page, ca. 1840

Loose oil sketch of a seated woman holding a child beside a dark reclining figure in a red headscarf, on a brown ground.

The Fortune Teller

Robert Loftin Newman, by 1894

Two young girls in a garden with a black dog, a flower basket, and a white house under a cloudy sky in the distance.

The Daughters of Daniel T. MacFarlan

Theodore E. Pine, 1857

Painting of a trumpeter on horseback at a city gate, with a crowd, a large tree, and a tavern building in warm tones.

The Vigilant Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate

John Quidor, 1863

Portrait of a seated woman in black holding a young blond child in white on her lap against a dark green background.

Mrs. Marinus Willett and Her Son Marinus, Jr.

John Vanderlyn, ca. 1802

Black and white reproduction of a painting of a girl in a white puffed-sleeve dress reaching toward flowers.

Portrait of a Girl with Flowers

Samuel Lovett Waldo, ca. 1835

Painting of a knight gesturing as a woman offers a jeweled ornament, with an old man in red and a horse in a stable setting.

The Damsel and Orlando

Benjamin West, ca. 1793

Portrait of a young child in white satin and red shawl, holding roses, with a dark curtain and landscape behind.

Elizabeth Greenleaf

John Singleton Copley, 1753-54

Oil portrait of a seated woman and a child on a wooden bench in a shaded woodland with a distant landscape.

Portrait of a Lady and Child

George W. Twibill Jr., 1833

Painting of Hagar and an angel pointing upward while Ishmael sits slumped beside her beneath a stormy sky.

Hagar and Ishmael

Benjamin West, 1776, reworked 1803

Portrait of a young child in a plumed red turban and embroidered gown, seated beside a white lamb before a landscape.

John Greenleaf

John Singleton Copley, 1753-54

Family portrait in a red-draped parlor with a seated woman, standing man, and two girls in pink dresses beside a bookcase.

The Family of John Q. Aymar

George W. Twibill Jr., ca. 1833

Painting of a crowned Virgin in red holding a child, flanked by two angels in dark gowns and two kneeling infants.

Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados (Our Lady of the Forsaken)

Spanish Painter, 18th century

Panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary, the Christ Child, kneeling kings, attendants and a star above.

Adoration of the Magi

Unknown artist, ca. 1470-90

Gold necklace with oval miniature portraits of children, a young man in a naval cap, and a young woman.

A Mother's Pearls

Thomas Seir Cummings, 1841

Grayscale portrait of a young girl with center-parted curly hair and an off-shoulder dress, head and shoulders shown.

Ida Cushman

George Hewitt Cushman, ca. 1856

Oval miniature portrait of a young blond child with blue eyes in a white dress, set in a gold pendant frame.

Ada Brown

John Henry Brown, 1847

Hanging scroll of a standing woman in a patterned kimono with a trailing sash, with calligraphy above her.

Girl Tying Sash

Ogawa Haritsu, 1740

Ink and color painting on a fan of a herdboy riding a water buffalo through reeds, with calligraphy and red seals.

Herdboy and Buffalo

Ren Bonian, dated 1890

Ink sketch of running children, a crowd of boys, and a boy with a stick beside a snake on a handscroll.

Frolicking Figures and Animals

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 19th century

Folding fan painting of two scholars standing beside a boy feeding a white goose under a pine tree.

Two Scholars and Boy with Goose

Sun Rong, 19th century

Hanging scroll with a circular ink painting of a boy in red trying to make a dark ox drink beside a bare tree.

Boy Trying to Make an Ox Drink

Hanging scroll of a hooded robed figure with a staff above a crouching child and a standing woman in kimono.

Group

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Six-panel folding screen of children playing by a sandy shore, with a boat and gold leaf clouds.

Children Playing in Summer and Winter

Maruyama Ōshin, early 19th century

Painting of a shepherdess with a staff beside a ewe and lambs resting under a tree, with village houses in the distance.

Springtime

Charles Émile Jacque

Woman in a floral kimono beside a hagoita paddle and shuttlecock, with vertical calligraphy and red seals on a woodblock prin

Girl and a Hagoita (Japanese Battledore and Shuttlecock)

Kubo Shunman, probably 1815

Woodblock print of two seated women and a child beside a veranda, with flowering plants and a lattice window behind them.

Madame Tang (Tō Fujin), from the series Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Fū…

Isoda Koryusai, 1764-72 (Meiwa era)

Japanese woodblock print of a woman adjusting her hair beside a child carrying a sign, with plum blossoms and a bamboo fence.

Print - Totoya Hokkei, 1830

Totoya Hokkei, 1830

Woodblock print of two women in European dress combing their hair before a mirror, with a checkered skirt and red blouse.

Print - Utagawa Sadahide, 1861

Utagawa Sadahide, 1861 (Bunkyu 1, 1st month)

Watercolor of boys in straw hats in a wooden dory on calm water, with sailboats and a shoreline in the distance.

Boys in a Dory

Winslow Homer, 1873