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Rijksmuseum

25 works

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

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

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

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

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

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-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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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