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Rijksmuseum

28 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Father with three crying children

Honoré Daumier, 1838

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 woman and two children in a domestic interior with a fireplace and table.

Woman with two children in interior

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

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

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 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

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

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

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