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Tempera panel of the Virgin and Christ child in a gilded halo, framed by dark foliage and gold roundels on green.

Virgin and Child

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, c. 1440 - c. 1450

Oil painting of the Madonna embracing the Christ child, with two putti holding a red cloth behind them.

Madonna and Child

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1525 - 1535

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

Pen and ink sketch of three women and a child at an arched house doorway, one seated, one kneeling with the child, one standi

Three women and a child at a house door

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1645

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in a cap holding a child on her lap, with loose strokes on pale paper.

A Woman with a Child on Her Lap

Adriaen van de Velde, 1662 - 1667

Black and red chalk drawing of a young boy with wavy shoulder-length hair and a white collar, turned to one side.

Portrait of Cornelis Cossiers

Jan Cossiers, 1658

Hand-colored 1738 print with an empty oval floral frame and small scenes of dining, children playing, and a couple by a river

Wish letter with loving couples and playing children

Jacobus Rijckhoff, 1738

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

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

Hand-coloured woodcut broadside of a decorated ox in a frame with ornamental borders, cherubs, and Dutch verse text.

Children come running now / To buy the ox boo / It is an excellent guild ox / You can buy it for little money

Erven H. Rynders, 1781

Hand-colored children's alphabet sheet with twenty-six cards, each showing a letter and an animal in blue, red and yellow.

New alphabet game for children / New alphabet game for children

Philippus Jacobus Brepols, 1800

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-coloured broadside with rows of vignettes showing criminal Cartouche's crimes, arrest and execution, with verse captions

Let dear children let, the bloodthirst and deeds / Of this great villain, remain in your memory [(...)]

Erven H. Rynders, 1800

Pencil drawing of a street vendor with a barrel cart talking to a woman and child on a cobbled quay with ship masts behind.

Children with a street vendor along a quay

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

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 print of a garlanded ox within ornamental borders with cherubs, foliage and Dutch verse text above.

Children come now running / To buy the little ox / It is an excellent guild ox / You can buy it for little money

Erven H. Rynders, 1781

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 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

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

Drawing of a man cleaning fish at a table while two children and a cat stand in a wooden interior.

Interior with man cleaning fish and two children

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Engraving of two children in a chariot drawn by a flying dragon above clouds, with a rider scene and armor below.

Two children in a triumphal chariot pulled by dragons

Jacques Le Roy, 1771

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

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 Blijhooft, 1667

Engraved cartouche with an empty oval centre, flanked by two nude putti and garlands of fruit, with cherub heads.

Cartouche flanked by two children

H. Picart, 1628

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

Engraving of Christ seated under a colonnade blessing children while mothers and apostles gather around him.

Christ blessing the children (Suffer the little children to come unto me)

Peeter Baltens, 1570

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman kneeling beside two small children on the floor, with stacked chairs behind.

Woman with two sick or starving children

Hans Peter Lindeburg, 1902

Engraving of a man embraced by children, a woman with a toddler nearby, a cart, a village house and a chicken in the foregrou

Two children welcome their father with an embrace

Reinier Vinkeles, 1789

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

Pencil drawing of a family in an interior: a seated man, a standing older woman, and three children around a table.

Interior with man, woman and three children around a table

Henk Henriët, 1913