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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Oval portrait of two young girls in white dresses embracing against a dark background, one raising her hand.

The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818-?1906, and Laura Anne, 1820-1894)

Thomas Lawrence, 1823

Oil portrait of a young peasant woman in a white headcloth and dark bodice, gazing downward against a grey background.

Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth

Wilhelm Leibl, 1885

Painted copy of a family portrait: a man and woman in dark dress with a toddler and parrot on a garden terrace.

Copy after "Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614-1673), and Their Son Frans (1633-1678)"

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child on a marble throne, flanked by two angels in green robes against a gold-halo

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440

Monochrome brown painting of people gathering manna in a desert camp, with angels above and two bearded prophets in the upper

The Gathering of Manna

Interior painting of women and a girl in a dim room with hanging linens, a man in a tricorn hat at right.

The Letter

Pietro Longhi, 1746

Black-and-white view of a seated Madonna holding the Christ Child, with a scroll and patterned gold background under a Gothic

Madonna and Child

Luca di Tommè di Nuto, ca. 1360-65

Painting of a crowded city square with a crowned, nearly nude figure presented on a platform before soldiers and onlookers.

Christ Presented to the People

Lucas van Leyden

Two women at a window with green shutters, one in a white dress with blue ribbons, beside a potted pink-flowered plant.

Girls at a Window

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, ca. 1875

Oil painting of an elderly man in red gesturing while a barefoot woman in a red hat and a boy with a bow stand by a building.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael

Nicolaes Maes, 1653

Painting of a crowded tavern-like scene under a ruined arch, with a magpie perched on a barrel and a sea view beyond.

The Tame Magpie

Alessandro Magnasco, ca. 1707-8

Seated woman in white gown with two cherubs, one holding arrows on green velvet, before a red curtain and flowers.

The Dream after the Ball

Woman in white cap making lace beside a toddler in a wooden high chair, in a Dutch-style interior with a red tablecloth.

The Lacemaker

Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1656

Full-length painting of a young boy in dark jacket and blue stockings holding a sword against a brown background.

Boy with a Sword

Édouard Manet, 1861

Arched panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, with a gold halo and rows of red winged cherubim behind them.

Madonna and Child with Seraphim and Cherubim

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1454

Virgin Mary holds a child who reaches for grapes, with a fruit basket and a wide landscape of cliffs and a river behind.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Jan Matsys, 1537-40

Painting of a well-dressed man in a black hat and cloak facing beggars, including a woman with a baby, under a stone archway.

Beggars at a Doorway

French or Master of the Béguins

Horizontal panel with three narrative scenes of horsemen, a Madonna and child, and a bed scene, framed by raised gilded borde

Scenes from a Legend; Coats of Arms

Master of Charles of Durazzo

Painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child in an arched niche, she wears a pink gown and teal cloak with gold halo.

Madonna and Child

Master of the Lanckoronski Annunciation

Medieval-style painting of the Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child, in a blue mantle against a gold background with Latin in

Virgin and Child

Netherlandish Painter

Medieval panel of Madonna and Child with a bishop presenting a kneeling donor, with gold throne and flowers.

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z., ca. 1420-30

Half-length Madonna in dark veil and gold halo, with one hand raised to her chest, painted on a fragment of panel.

Madonna and Child

Master of the Magdalen, ca. 1280

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding and kissing the Christ Child, with a red mantle and a blue hilly landscape behind them.

Virgin and Child

Master of the Mansi Magdalen

Oil painting of three children and a standing youth in a wooded landscape with a stream and river behind them.

Portrait of three children in a Louisiana landscape

Jacques Amans, 1837

Gilded triptych with Madonna and Child enthroned among angels and saints, flanked by scenes of the Passion.

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Master of Monte Oliveto, ca. 1315-20

Grisaille painting of the Madonna and Child with infant John the Baptist and angels beneath a dove in a starry sky.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels

Master called Pseudo-Pier Francesco Fiorentino

Miniature portrait in a velvet case of four children, two boys standing behind, a boy and a girl in white seated on a red cus

The Thompson Children

John Carlin, 1846

Black and white reproduction of a religious painting showing the Virgin and Child enthroned between two haloed standing saint

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints James Minor and Lucy

Marco di Paolo Veneziano

Painting of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ, in red robe and blue mantle, against an incised gold background in an arche

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden

Three children in a painted interior with a classical urn and lake landscape; two stand in green dresses, one sits in white.

The Children of Homer Ramsdell, Esq.

Thomas Seir Cummings, 1842