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I get the feeling she's blossomed with life: but not too much life, even in her cornucopia of human creation; no, she wants more, for this is no person of verisimilitude, this is an archetype, one of the most lovely.
William-Adolphe Bougereau's "Motherland".
"Young Thomas and His Mother," Mary Cassatt, 1893.
Pennsylvania-born Cassatt (1844-1926) should be familiar to us; I've featured her before and she's a very popular painter.
In the 1880s, Cassatt became focused on the theme of mothers and children, and produced many, now-familiar works in that genre. Young Thomas and his mother here were repeat models.
These paintings were generally tightly focused, and some felt that indicated a sort of cloistered life; I feel it was a reflection of the intimacy of the relationship between mother and child. Cassatt was not cloistered! She guided many wealthy American travelers to purchase works by her colleagues; it's said now that she's indirectly responsible for many prominent American museum collections.
From the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. (I've been there!)
We like vivid scenes of drama and death, but sometimes we want to relax and sink into some gooey sentiment, like what this scene of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun with her little daughter evokes: you can practically feel the love come off the canvas... 
Call me crazy, but this is what I really want for Christmas. 
Herbert James Draper's delightful vision of "A Water Baby".
Not so blonde, but very tan...and super fun. A picture that just makes you smile at the thought of what life could be: Wilhelm Kray's "Sea Creatures".
Mirror, mirror, on the ground, who's the fairest of them all? Your darling mother, that's who! And honestly that kid looks fantastic too. People berate vanity, but I say if you've got it, enjoy it. 
Frederic Leighton's delightful "Light of the Harem".
That feeling when home is where the heart can be no more. So many of us have been there, but so few have captured the vibe like Edmund Blair Leighton did in his magnificently lush painting "In Time of Peril".
Giving life to a bundle of your man's love for you is wholesome and feminine enough, but what this alabaster vision of womanhood is experiencing is next-level: a gift from the gods. Herbert James Draper's "A Water Baby".
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world...but this darling is just too happy to want to rule the world; she looks like she only dreams of love and the soft things in life. William Gale's infectiously feminine vision, "Rocking the Baby".
Deep down children know what's good for them, and this one is so captivated by the sounds of mother's lovely seashells I'm sure she'll be spending the rest of her life by the water. And why not? After all, beach life is the best life. William-Adolphe Bouguereau's "The Shell".
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Ah, the wholesome embrace of not just mother love, but ocean water as well; some babies have all the luck...and I think he's one baby who knows it! Wilhelm Kray's beautiful and ever-so-slightly fantastical vision of a maritime day, "Sea Creatures".
She is so captivated by the sounds of those seashells...and they're so pretty too. Perfect thing to raise a girl with. After all, beach life is the best life. I should have been a beach kid...
William-Adolphe Bouguereau's "The Shell".
Gray langurs (Semnopithecus entellus), mother and the newborn baby, photographed in the wild, in the Ranthambore National Park. Rajasthan, India
Prints and downloads: https://radekkucharski.picfair.com/pics/019322499-gray-langurs-mother-and-baby?rcs=ZwQD7F8
