Gustav Klimt

This was a commission — her parents were rich Viennese patrons who put money behind a lot of the design world there. The story goes she was nine, and that she picked how she wanted to stand herself.

This is said to be one of the last canvases he had on the go, and it usually gets listed as unfinished. Before he ever painted a cradle he'd spent years on decorative commissions — walls, friezes, panels for other people's buildings — which might be why bedding gets as much attention here as anybody's face.