Children's Clothing

For the most part in pre-modern history, children wore the same things as adults, especially in formal portraits.

 

Tunic with fish appliqués (David Bernstein Pre-Columbian Art 91201A). Peru - ca. 900-1350

Child's bracelet (Museum für Islamische Kunst I.48/71.160).Iran - 12th-13th C. 

Portrait of a Boy in Profile (National Gallery of Art 2014.9.1). Italy – 1440s

Bust of a child (V&A Museum REPRO.1867-182). Italy - ca. 1460-90

Portrait of a Youth (V&A Museum 7626-1861). Italy - ca. 1475-1500

Portrait of the Dauphin Charles-Orlant by Jean Hey (Louvre RF 1942 28). France - 1494

Portrait of a 40 year old widow and a child by Cornelis de Visscher (Louvre RF 1950 42). Netherlands - 16th C.

Child Holding a Pear (Louvre MNR 358; 1874). Germany - 16th C.

The Dissolute Household by Pieter Balten (National Gallery of Art 1943.3.1449). Netherlands – 16th C.

Portrait of a Child of the Royal Family (Louvre MI 1300). France - 16th C.

Portrait of a young girl, perhaps the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello (Louvre MI 800). Spain - late 16th C.

The School Teacher by Albrecht Dürer (National Gallery of Art 1943.3.3609). Germany – 1510

A Prince of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder (National Gallery of Art 1947.6.1). Germany – ca. 1517

A Princess of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder (National Gallery of Art 1947.6.2). Germany – ca. 1517

Philipp Von Gail... and his five sons by Bartholomaus Bruyn the Elder (Louvre RF 1771). 1525-50 

Katharina Von Gail and her Two Daughters by Bartholomaus Bruyn the Elder (Louvre RF 1772). Germany - 1525-50

Edward VI as a Child by Hans Holbein the Younger (National Gallery of Art 1937.1.64). 1538?

Clarissa Strozzi at the age of Two by Tizian (Gemäldegalerie 160A). Italy - 1542  

Portrait of a Woman and Girl attributed to Adriaen van Cronenburg (Louvre MI 819). 1550-75 

Child's kaftan (V&A Museum 752-1884). Turkey - 1550-1600 

Child's kaftan (V&A Museum 761-1884). Turkey - 1550-1600 

Child's kaftan (V&A Museum 771-1884). Turkey - 1550-1600

Portrait of five of the children of the German Emperor Maximilian II (Louvre RF 2645). 1550-1600

Bust of a young prince (Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst M 301). France - ca. 1555

Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa by Sofonisba Anguissola. Italy - 1557

The Wedding at Cana by Ludger tom Ring the Younger (Gemäldegalerie 708). 1562 

The Banquet by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, c. 1565

François-Hercule de France, Duke of Alençon (Louvre MI 836). France - 1566-67

Portrait of a Child (Brooklyn Museum 32.811). France - ca. 1570 

Antonius Anselmus, His Wife and Their Children by Marten de Vos, 1577

Plate (Kunstgewerbemuseum F 2672). Italy - ca. 1580 

Otto Venius painting, surrounded by his family, 1584

Group Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Santo Stefano with his Family by Tiberio Titi (National Gallery of Ireland NGI.4603). 1590s  

Childbed linen (V&A Museum T.158D, F, I, J, M, N, O-1941). England - 1590-1625

Portrait of a Woman with a Child (Louvre RF 1938 72). France - ca. 1600 

 

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