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Children's Games by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560
Kunsthistorisches Museum · wikidata.org
Public domain
Historians have reportedly counted somewhere close to ninety separate games hidden in this one board - tug of war, leapfrog, hoop-rolling, plus a few nobody's been able to name for sure.
Erisava: There's too much happening for one painting - like a hundred stories weaved together.
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.