A Visit to the Nursery by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1775
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Scenes of an ordinary household became fashionable late on — no gods, no mythology, just a room at night. There's a long-running muddle about which version is which: it was matched for years to a picture sold at auction in the 1780s until, according to Wikipedia, a closer match surfaced in a collection in Estonia around 2009.
Erisava: Nice to look at, but it's all a bit posed — and that baby's the size of a toddler.
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