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Fathers and sons

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Images about Fathers and sons

42 images from works
  • A father with a chainsaw running amok in a teenage boy's bedroom; representing a parent to whom it is difficult to talk about drugs, but who is not typical of all parents. Colour lithograph for the Drugs Infolijn and the Trimbos-instituut, 200-.
  • Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.
  • A boy angel appears as Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son. Lithograph by G. Sensi y Baldachi after A. del Sarto, 1529.
  • Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.
  • M. de Mélincourt is happy that his wife is painting flowers, his sister is playing music, his elder son is learning to fence and is younger son is playing with the dog. Engraving.
  • The hollow eyes of blind Tobit are anointed with fish gall by Tobias. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1767, after R. Earlom after Agostino Carracci.
  • Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.
  • A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour drawing by R.R.S.
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Works from the collections

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    The resurrected Christ appears with a flag before the apostles; God spreads his hands above. Woodcut.

    | Reference: 23293i
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    Jan Baptista van Helmont and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Etching by C. de Man, 1648.

    Cornelis de Man | Date: 1648 | Reference: 4126i
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    Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, escaping from the sack of Troy, accompanied by Creusa and Ascanius. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654.

    Pierre Lombart | Date: [1654] | Reference: 2814502i
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    A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

    | Date: May 26 1801 | Reference: 27365i
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    Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.

    Carlo Maratta | Reference: 20980i
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Related topics

Family
Christianity
Father-Child Relations
Prodigal son (Parable)
Jesus Christ - Parables
Anchises (Legendary character)
Troy (Extinct city)
Angels
Blindness
Funeral rites and ceremonies

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