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| Pietro della Vecchia Woman with Child before 1687 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Benjamin West Mother and Child 1783 drawing British Museum |
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| Pierre-Augustin Thomire Portrait of a Woman and Child 1783 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Self Portrait with daughter Julie 1786 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Ralph Earl Mrs William Taylor and her Daughter 1790 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Robert Lefèvre Catherine Josephine Muller and her Daughter 1803 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Anonymous French Painter Mother and Child 1831 watercolor on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Robert Thorburn Miniature Portrait of the Duchess of Buccleuch and her daughter Lady Victoria Scott 1847 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gustaf Wappers Mother and Child 1853 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña Oriental Mother and Daughter 1865 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hans Thoma In der Hängematte (the artist's wife and child) 1876 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Eva Gonzalès Nursemaid and Child ca. 1877-78 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Edmund Charles Tarbell Mother and Child in a Boat 1892 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Edvard Weie Mother and Child 1905 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Augustus John Woman and Child ca. 1911-12 oil on panel Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Alfonso Ossorio Mother and Child 1951 oil and enamel on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Paul Strand Postmistress and Daughter - Luzzara, Italy 1953 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
from The Wreck of the Deutschland
For how to the heart's cheering
The down-dugged ground-hugged grey
Hovers off, the jay-blue heavens appearing
Of pied and peeled May!
Blue-beating and hoary-glow height; or night, still higher,
With belled fire and the moth-soft Milky Way,
What by your measure is the heaven of desire,
The treasure never eyesight got, nor was ever guessed what for the hearing?
– Gerard Manley Hopkins (1876)