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Rijksmuseum

56 works

Oil painting of a sunlit Dutch waterway with sailing boats, a windmill, a red-roofed cottage and a woman with a child on a pa

The Trekvliet near Rijswijk, known as ‘View near the Geestbrug’

Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, 1868

Four children in white bonnets play in shallow sea water beside a toy sailboat on a pale beach.

Children of the Sea

Jozef Israëls, 1872

Painting of a young woman in a white kimono with red blossoms, reclining against a dark floral screen and patterned cushions.

Girl in a White Kimono

George Hendrik Breitner, 1894

Woman in red headscarf and blue apron carrying two wooden buckets along a path beside a farmhouse wall, painted in oil.

Girl carrying Water

Jean-François Millet, c. 1855 - 1860

Painting of Christ blessing children among robed figures before a glowing stone archway under a fiery sky.

Christ Blessing the Children

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1870

Oil painting of a woman peeling potatoes in a dim kitchen while a young child sits beside a bucket on the floor.

Woman Peeling Potatoes

Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever, 1880 - 1922

Oil painting of a poor mother nursing an infant in a dim attic, with a visiting well-dressed woman and barefoot children.

A Rich Lady Visits a Poor Family

Gerardus Terlaak, 1853

Oil portrait of a woman in white with two children and a large dog beside a sofa, red curtains and a cloudy sky.

Maria Mathilda Bingham with Two of her Children

Thomas Lawrence, 1810

Oil painting of a domestic interior with children playing with toy weapons while a man in a tricorn hat aims a musket.

The parricides, ‘What comes from cats, all mice’

David Bles, 1869

Oil painting of a dim interior with a woman holding a baby by a fire, a figure in red in a doorway, and sunlight from a windo

Sunny Room

Eugène François de Block, 1830 - 1893

Oil painting of a boy with a toy sailboat at a table and a young woman in an apron sewing in a dim interior.

The Fisherman's Children

Bernard Blommers, 1868

Dim interior seen through an open door, a woman and child seated at a table by a bright window, clogs on the floor.

Domestic Interior with Country Woman and Child

Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever, c. 1880 - c. 1907

Oil painting of an elderly couple with a young woman, the mother's hand resting on her daughter's head before a mountain back

'A Mother's Blessing'

Moritz Calisch, 1844

Oil painting of a young girl in a white cap knitting while seated in dune grass, with laundry spread on the grass nearby.

Girl Knitting

Bernard Blommers, 1885 - 1886

Painting of two children riding donkeys on a beach with a standing boy in blue beside them, sea behind.

Boy and Girl on Donkeys

Isaac Israëls, 1896 - 1901

Mother and two children kneeling in prayer beside a stone fireplace in a rustic interior with a wicker cradle.

The Evening Prayer

Pierre Édouard Frère, 1857

Young woman in white cap and red dress reading a book by a leaded window in a dim interior.

Amsterdam Orphan Girl

Nicolaas van der Waay, c. 1890 - c. 1910

Family portrait in a park: a man in green holds a pheasant, a woman holds a toddler, children and dogs gather nearby.

Jonkheer Gysbert Carel Rutger Reinier van Brienen van Ramerus(1771-1821), with his Wife and four of their Children

Adriaan de Lelie, 1804

Two children bent over a picture book on a dark wooden table in a dim interior, one pointing at the page.

Children with a Picture-book

Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever, 1880

Painted silk group portrait of a family, a wet nurse and two servants beside a black sofa, dated 1817.

Portrait of the Cock Blomhoff Family, their Wetnurse and two Enslaved Servants

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1817

Twelve-panel Dutch moralizing print of a miser punished by labor, drowning, and death, with hand-colored accents and captions

He who deserves the name of miser or greedy, / Is, as depicted here, not worthy of honor but shame! / Make, children!…

Jacob Coldewijn, 1831

Sheet of thirty-six small hand-colored woodcut vignettes of women with rhyming captions, 1831.

See what each image and work in this print signifies / And choose / O children, the best for yourselves

Erven H. Rynders, 1831

Colored print of a river landscape at dusk with swimming children, water buffalo, palm trees, huts and a wooden bridge.

Landscape in the Batavian Ommelanden with swimming children

Johan Conrad Greive, 1865

Twelve-panel moralizing print showing a greedy man's punishment, rescue by boat, death, and burial, with Dutch captions.

He, who deserves the name of miser or greedy person, / Is, as depicted here, worthy of no honor but shame! / Make, ch…

Jacob Coldewijn, 1831

Hand-colored woodcut sheet with a grid of small Dutch genre scenes and verses showing people, carts, animals and soldiers.

Learn / children! through these print scenes / Artificial reading / while playing

Erven H. Rynders, 1831

Hand-colored print of a valley with thatched houses, palm trees, a dirt road with figures, and a mountain range under clouds.

Landscape with a settlement and a Sundanese woman with children

Johan Conrad Greive, 1865

Woodcut sheet of animals in framed panels around a large hippopotamus, with Dutch verses beneath each image.

The animals, children! that these prints show you, And inhabit water, earth or air, Being called bisexual, deserve in…

Johannes Bouwer, 1805

Hand-colored woodcut with five medallions showing men representing hearing, smell, taste, touch and sight, framed by animals

O children observe your duty, / To the amusement ordained by God

Erven H. Rynders, 1831

Grey wash drawing of rubble from a fallen church tower in Westzaan, with workers among stones and a brick church behind.

Depiction of the ruins of the tower in Westzaan that collapsed on January 1, 1843, by which disaster a house with man…

Herman Thepass, 1843

Hand-colored print of children making music and studying a globe with adults in a garden, with a dog nearby.

Children make music and learn geography

Frédéric Charles Wentzel, 1850

Lithograph with six vignettes of children, a woman, a horse rider, a hunter with dogs, and a man carrying a box.

Six representations of children, hunters and other figures

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Small print of children playing by a basin under a tree, with a hat on the ground, after a Decamps design.

Children blow against a boat in a tub

Adolphe Mouilleron, 1830

Hand-colored print of children playing with toy soldiers at a table in a room with green curtains and a dog.

Children playing with small soldiers

Frédéric Charles Wentzel, 1850

Hand-coloured children's sheet with rows of labelled animal illustrations from A to Z, including elephant, zebra and giraffe.

The little zoo for children

Franciscus Antonius Beersmans, 1866

Lithograph of children playing with swords and toy figures under a tree, with a village street and church steeple behind them

Playing children in the fifteenth century

David van der Kellen, 1859

Colored print of children dancing around a decorated maypole on a village path, with houses and trees behind them.

Children playing near a maypole

Frédéric Charles Wentzel, 1850

Pencil sketch of a seated boy and head studies of a girl, a bearded man and a veiled woman on cream paper.

Studies of children and a few adults

Cornelis Kruseman, 1814

Engraved domestic scene of a seated mother with a toddler, a boy holding a mirror, and a girl with a dog in an interior.

Mother with three children in interior

Pieter van der Beek, 1815

Lithograph of a seated mother holding an infant, a young girl playing with a dog, and a woman writing in a domestic interior.

Mother with three children and a dog

Chrétien, 1822

Engraved portrait of a woman in a feathered hat with two young children beside a carved armchair and columns.

Portrait of Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies with her two children

Adolphe Alexandre Joseph Caron, 1829

Pencil sketch of a woman and two children in a kitchen with a hearth, table, and window.

Woman and two children in the kitchen

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

Engraved print of two women and two children at a doorway, with a floral garland and crown on the sill below.

Mother with young girl and two children in a window opening

Chrétien, 1822

Daumier lithograph of a distressed father holding a crying baby while two children cry nearby, 1838.

Father with three crying children

Honoré Daumier, 1838

Pencil sketch of a seated woman and two children in a domestic interior with a fireplace and table.

Woman with two children in interior

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

Woodcut print of a large rooster with hens and a farmhouse in a grassy landscape, framed by a decorative border.

Come children see this brisk rooster, / Who urges you to Industry

Monogrammist LBM, 1806

Lithograph of a flat landscape with a shed, moored boat, two seated children, a standing figure and a distant windmill.

Landscape with children by barn and boat

Jan Weissenbruch, 1863

Brown wash drawing of four children on a flat boat by a canal, looking up at trees and a building behind a fence.

Four children look from a barge at a sparrow's nest

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Etching of a narrow stone street under an archway, with three children playing and two women watching from above.

Cityscape with three children playing on the street, under the watchful eye of two women

Florimond Buyck, 1870

Lithograph of a village street with a horseman, dogs, men at a bench under a tree, and a church tower in the distance.

Playing children

Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1820

Etching of a man in a headwrap with downcast eyes, with a woman and a child's heads behind and beside him.

Children's heads

Marius Richters, 1888

Ink and wash drawing of a nursemaid with a parasol walking with two children in long dresses.

Babysitter with two children under a broken umbrella

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Etching of children wading in shallow sea water, one carrying a toddler and another guiding a toy sailboat near the shore.

Children of the Sea

Carel Lodewijk Dake, 1888

Sepia photograph of Kandyan children and a man on a hillside, beside a landscape view of wooded hills and a valley.

Kandyan children

Henry William Cave, 1900

Engraved portrait of a white-haired man in a dark coat and cravat, printed on a foxed sheet with a caption below.

Portret van John George Children Esqr

William Raddon, 1839

Night scene of children and adults in silhouette gathered around a bonfire on a road beside a tree and fence.

Children clustered around a Saint Martin’s bonfire

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Japanese woodblock print of a woman and two children feeding chickens beneath bare plum branches, with calligraphy.

Woman and Children Feeding Chicken

Keisai Eisen, 1825