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Children's Games is an oil-on-panel by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1560. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The entire composition is full of children playing a wide variety of games. Over 90 different games that were played by children at the time have been identified. [2]
Children playing snap-dragon (1889) Fanciful image of a dragon playing Snap-dragon, from Robert Chambers' Book of Days (1879) Snap-dragon (also known as Flap-dragon, Snapdragon, or Flapdragon) was a parlour game popular from about the 16th century. It was played during the winter, particularly on Christmas Eve.
Hide-and-seek (sometimes known as hide-and-go-seek) is a popular children's game in which at least two players (usually at least three) [1] conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers. The game is played by one chosen player (designated as being "it") counting to a predetermined number with eyes closed while the ...
Children of the Sea portrays children at play, and the toy is a sailing boat in the shallow water. [2] In Dutch the painting is known as Kinderen Der Zee. [3] The painting is now in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. [1] Israëls created at least 13 different versions or configurations of children playing by the sea.
Murillo made several compositions where he enhanced the role of children playing at picking fruit. The egregious figure of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, from whom Goya would have been able to study some works owned by the Royal House, is the strongest influence of Spanish art in his cartoons, especially in technique. Jovellanos ...
Children Playing with a Goat is an 18th-century grisaille painting in the style of Jacob de Wit, known as a "witje". It is an oil painting on canvas depicting a relief of children playing with a goat after a relief by Francois Duquesnoy. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]
Children Eating Grapes and a Melon is a 1645-1650 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in room XIII of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. [1] Along with religious works, realistic and naturalistic genre scenes like this form one of the most oft-repeated themes in the artist's oeuvre, often centred on children, as also seen in ...
The Hülsenbeck Children is an oil on canvas painting by the Romantic German artist Philipp Otto Runge, executed in 1805–06, which is now in the collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg. [ 1 ] Runge had a short life, dying of tuberculosis at the age of 33, and this work is considered his masterpiece.