Child-life in Art

by Estelle M. Hurll

Art has produced so many representations of children that it would be a hopeless task to attempt a complete enumeration of them, and the book makes no pretensions to exhaustiveness. The aim has been merely to suggest a convenient outline of classification, and to describe a few characteristic examples in each group. The nature of the undertaking has, of course, necessitated consulting the works of many standard authorities, to whom I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness. The names of the most prominent are included in the [bibliographical list]. While faithfully studying their opinions, I have always reserved the right of forming an independent estimate of any painting considered, especially when, as in many cases, I have myself seen the original. I am under great obligations to my friend Professor Anne Eugenia Morgan of Wellesley for first showing me, through her philosophical art-interpretations, the true meaning and value of the works of the masters. From these interpretations I have drawn many of the suggestions which are embodied in the descriptions of the following pages.

While addressing lovers of children primarily, I have also hoped to interest students in the history of art. I have therefore added a few notes containing further details in regard to some of the subjects.

E. M. H.

New Bedford, Mass., June 1, 1894.

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CONTENTS.

Chapter		Page
I.	[Childhood in Ideal Types]	3
II.	[Children Born to the Purple]	29
III.	[The Children of Field and Village]	57
IV.	[The Child-Life of the Streets]	87
V.	[Child-Angels]	115
VI.	[The Christ-Child]	141

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

		Page
[Sistine Madonna]	Raphael	Frontispiece
[The Strawberry Girl]	Reynolds	7
[Penelope Boothby]	Reynolds	15
[Angel Heads]	Reynolds	19
From the original painting in the National Gallery, London.
[Nature]	Lawrence	23
[Portrait of Prince James, Duke of York]	Van Dyck	33
From a painting in San Luca, Rome, after the Turin portrait by Van Dyck.
[Portrait of Princess Mary Stuart and Prince William II. of Orange]	Van Dyck	39
From the original painting in Amsterdam.
[Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa]	Velasquez	45
From the original painting in the Prado, Madrid.
[Portrait of the Infanta Marguerite]	Velasquez	49
From the original painting in the Louvre, Paris.
[Rustic Children]	Gainsborough	59
[La Cruche Cassée] (The Broken Pitcher)	Greuze	71
From the original painting in the Louvre, Paris.
[Child’s Head]	Bouguereau	77
[The Little Rabbit Seller]	Meyer von Bremen	81
[Beggar Boys]	Murillo	89
From the original painting in the Pinacothek, Munich.
[Street Arabs]	Dorothy Tennant Stanley	98
[The Meeting]	Marie Bashkirtseff	103
From the original painting in the Luxembourg, Paris.
[Castles in Spain]	J. G. Brown	107
[Group of Angels.] From the Assumption	Titian	119
From the original painting in the Academy, Venice.
[Piping Angel.] Detail of Frari Madonna	Bellini	127
From the original painting in Venice.
[Angel.] From Madonna and Child	Luigi Vivarini	131
From the original painting in the Church of Redentore, Venice.
[Angel.] From the Vision of Saint Bernard	Filippino Lippi	135
From the original painting in the Badia, Florence.
[Madonna of the Casa Tempi]	Raphael	147
[Infant Jesus and Saint John]	Boucher	155
From the original painting in the Uffizi, Florence.
[The Christ-Child]	Deger	159
[Head of Boy Christ]	Hofmann	163
Detail of Christ Disputing with the Doctors.