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Rijksmuseum

33 works

Family group with a nurse and infant on a dirt road, with a horse cart, sheep and trees in a wide landscape under clouds.

Portrait of a Couple with Two Children and a Nurse in a Landscape

Adriaen van de Velde, 1667

Oil painting of a farewell at a stone porch, with a couple and children on steps and mounted soldiers and horses on the road

The Leavetaking of Captain Hendrik de Sandra (1619-1707), sent off by his Wife and Children

Pieter van Anraedt, 1661

Family group portrait on a tiled terrace with two girls, a dog, flowers, two servants, and a sea view under a cloudy sky.

Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their daughters and two enslaved servants

Jacob Coeman, 1665

Painting of Mercury in a chariot drawn by roosters above children, monkeys, books, instruments and a harbor city.

The Children of the Planet Mercury

Jan Brueghel, c. 1645

Painting of a family with a nursemaid and child on a dirt path, with a horse cart, grazing sheep and trees in a wide landscap

Portret van een echtpaar met twee kinderen en een min in een landschapPortrait of a Couple with two Children and a Nu…

Adriaen van de Velde, 1667

Oil painting of a seated couple with six children under a tree at dusk, by Jürgen Ovens.

A couple with six children

Jürgen Ovens, 1650 - 1678

Forest landscape by Jan Brueghel with figures wading in a marsh beside a seated woman and children at lower left.

Latona and the Lycian Peasants

Jan Brueghel, c. 1605

Oil painting of nude women bathing by a river with reeds, wooded hills and a hazy sky in the distance.

Bathing Girls

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, after c. 1646

Oil portrait of a young woman gesturing beside a sleeping swaddled baby and two older children against a dark curtain.

Portrait of a Young Woman with Three Children

Wallerant Vaillant, c. 1668 - c. 1670

Brown wash interior with a skeleton, a hooded old man by a fire, a sleeping figure, a dog and a barrel.

The End of Misery

Adriaen van de Venne, 1632

Figures in a 17th-century interior: a woman playing a lute, men with sheet music, and a child playing with a small dog.

A Musical Company

Jan Verkolje, 1673

Nude infant Hercules holds a blue-banded serpent in a dim interior with red drapery and a landscape window.

The Infant Hercules with a Serpent

Pieter van der Werff, 1700 - 1722

Oil painting of two boys in a landscape, one in a red hunter's costume with dogs, the other barefoot with a lamb.

Portraits of two Boys in a Landscape, one dressed as a Hunter, the other St as John the Baptist

Douwe Juwes de Dowe, 1647

Oil painting of three figures in black dress with white collars, a fruit bowl, red drapery and a landscape behind them.

Portrait of a Family

Jacob van der Merck, c. 1650 - c. 1659

Oil painting of the infant Bacchus asleep with grapes and a jug, beside a tree in a dusky hilly landscape.

The Infant Bacchus

Pieter van der Werff, 1700 - 1722

Dim barn interior with three children seated at right, chickens on the floor, and light from an open doorway at left.

Interior of a Stable with three Children

Isaac van Ostade, 1642

Family group portrait on a checkered terrace: a man in red, a woman in blue, and twelve children, with a manor house in the d

The Amsterdam Merchant Jeremias van Collen (1608-1676), with his Wife and their Twelve Children

Pieter van Anraedt, 1655

Group portrait of a seated man and woman with four children, red drapery, and a brick building seen through an archway.

Reyer Reyersz van der Burch (1630-1695), Ammunition Officer attached to the Arsenal of the States-General, Delft, wit…

Cornelis de Man, 1670

Painting of mocking children pointing toward a man in red robes, with a white dog and a distant landscape with ruins.

Elisha Mocked by the Little Children

Roeloff van Zijl, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Brown ink drawing of a shepherd couple with cattle, sheep and a horse beside a thatched shed under a tree.

A Shepherd Couple with Cattle near a Shed

Adriaen van de Velde, 1646 - 1672

Pencil sketch of a reclining woman in a headscarf beside a seated child, with loosely drawn figures in the background.

Resting women and children

Zacharias Blyhooft, 1667

Watercolor of two children in 17th-century dress, one with a hoop and stick, the other with a hat and cane.

Gerrit and Cornelis Schellinger as children

Gesina ter Borch, 1675

Engraving of a crowded procession with soldiers, horses, women, children and a wagon loaded with barrels and bundles.

Part of a triumphal procession with soldiers, women, children and equipment

Pietro Sante Bartoli, 1680

Grey wash drawing of a domestic interior with a woman, a child, an elderly seated woman, and two children at a table.

Interior with a family with children

Jan Josef Horemans, 1692

Etched frieze of playing putti and children with garlands of grapes, a flower basket and a balustrade.

Frieze with playing children and putti

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Red chalk sketch of two children with a goat on a path, with trees, a fence and birds in the sky.

Two walking children with a goat

Moses ter Borch, 1653

Etching of mounted officers watching executions under trees with hanging bodies, captives and soldiers in the foreground, wit

De Koning doot en moort de protestante leeraars vrouwen en kinderen. The King causeth to kill the Protestants ministe…

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1688

Etching of playing putti and children among fruit garlands and grapes, with a bird flying above, in a horizontal frieze.

Frieze with eight playing children and putti

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Pen drawing of children playing in a town square before a tower and arched building, with a small dog at right.

Playing children in front of the Town Hall Tower and the school in Zwolle

Moses ter Borch, 1656

Etched page of four ornamental children's bed designs with cherubs, draped canopies, a chariot and a shell-shaped bed.

Four Designs for Children’s Beds in: Nuove invenzioni d’ornamenti d’architettura

Filippo Passarini, 1698