“Maternal Affection, Tenderness, or Love,” John Trumbull (American, 1756– 1843) Yale University Art Gallery
“The Artist’s Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right: Three-quarter Length,” Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch 1606-1669), Yale University Art Gallery.
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844 – 1926), “A Caress,” 1891, Pastel on paper, 29 1/4 x 23 3/4 in., New Britain Museum of American Art, Harriet Russell Stanley Fund, 1948.14
“A Mother with her Son and a Pony,” Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796Yale Center for British Art
Workshop of El GrecoThe Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1600-10Oil on canvas; 35 1/2 x 31 1/2″Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtThe Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1946.46
Hughie Lee-Smith (American, 1915 – 1999) “Promise,” 1989. Color lithograph on cream wove paper. Mattatuck Museum.
Bea Nettles (American, b. 1946) “Hatched,” 1979. Gum bichromate on vinyl substrate. Mattatuck Museum; Gift of the Artist
Elsie Rowland Chase (American, 1863-1937) The Bath, no date_ Oil on Canvas. Gift of Frederick S. Chase, X68.32
DonatelloItalian, Florence, c. 1386þÄì1560Madonna and ChildTerra cotta relief, in painted decor with gilt carved wood bracket.22-1/4″ h x 16″ w, relief; 40-5/8þÄù h x 30þÄù w x 6-1/2þÄù d, frameWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut,Bequest of Mrs. Clara Hinton Gould, 1948.243
“Elizabeth West and her Son Raphael,” ca. 1773 Benjamin West. Yale Centerfor British Art
George Romney, 1734–1802, “Anne Wilson and her Daughter, Sybill,” between 1776 and 1777.Yale Center for British Art
Untitled and undated African sculpure at Yale University Art Gallery.
“Portrait of Ellen Axson Wilson and Her Three Daughters” by Robert Vonnoh, 1913. Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme.
Frank Holl, 1845–1888, “Peeling Potatoes,” ca 1880.Yale Center for British Art.
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