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Parenting in art

Being a parent involves many skills, talents and activities. This gallery of paintings, drawings and more show how artists have depicted parents - both mothers and fathers - throughout time.

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A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’

Rijksmuseum

Visit to a New Mother

Rijksmuseum

Rich Children, Poor Parents

Rijksmuseum

Interior with a Mother Combing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘Maternal Care’

Rijksmuseum

Willem en zijn vader werken aan een scheepsmodel

Rijksmuseum

Zittende moeder die een baby optilt

Rijksmuseum

Lindegren, Amalia

Nordic Museum Foundation

Sunday Evening in a Farmhouse in Dalarna

Amalia Lindegren

Nationalmuseum Sweden

Portrait of Aernout van Beeftingh, his Wife Jacoba Maria Boon and their Children

Rijksmuseum

The Artist and his Family

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

A Mother with her Child

Rijksmuseum

Moeder en dochter in een slaapkamer

Rijksmuseum

Young Mother with a Child in a Garden

Bertha Wegmann

Nationalmuseum Sweden

National Heritage Institute, Bucharest

A Mother Feeding Porridge to her Child

Rijksmuseum

A Mother and her Child

Rijksmuseum

Meisje en haar moeder bij een venster

Rijksmuseum

Jongen en moeder verlaten een winkel

Rijksmuseum

Jongen en meisje tonen hun vader een zak

Rijksmuseum

Mother Combing Her Child's Hair, known as 'Hunting for Lice'

Gerard ter Borch

Mauritshuis

National Heritage Institute, Bucharest

Mother and Child

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National Gallery of Denmark

Mother with child

State Collections of Lower Austria