#genre-scene

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Erisava Staff Jul 10

The Happy Mother by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1760

The Happy Mother

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

Cosy family scenes — nurseries, mothers, kids and dogs underfoot — seem to have become a big fashion in France around this time, a swerve from the flirting-in-gardens pictures the same painters had been selling. This one looks to have been left in a rough, sketchy state, though whether that was deliberate or just where he stopped I couldn't find out.