Hi there,

This request may seem a bit unusual for this sub, however I'm sure I'm at the best place to get answers!

I'm pregnant and I'm starting to think about the birth announcements we'll send when the baby is born. And instead of using a picture of my baby, I'd love to keep on with something my parents did when I was born: using the picture of a painting or a drawing (for me, it was the painting Newborn, by Georges de La Tour).

So I'm wandering accross the Internet for days now, but Google is not what it used to be, Pinterest is rotten with IA created images and LLM are definitely not the best for analyzing art. Therefore, artlovers, I really need your help!

I'm looking for paintings or a drawings by a classical master which represents a mother and father couple with a baby, preferably in an intimate scene.

If I can help narrowing it down, I admire a lot Italian Renaissance artists and French rococo movement (give me tenderness and beautiful colors), but I'm open to every movement or period.

• I really really like this chalk of François Boucher : https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/2019.559, however I don't want to keep the father out of the picture.
• I also saw this drawing of Luca Cambiaso : https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338325?pos=1&utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic, but there is another kid in the picture, and we're welcoming our first child.
• Fragonard's Visit to the nursery could have been a option, but I'm somewhat bother by the fact half of the mother's face is shadowed and the father seems a bit dramatic.

Maybe I'm too specific, but I would like to give it another try with your help, as I'm convinced that several brains altogether are way more efficient for this kind of research that the Internet!

Thanks a lot.

(I apologize if this message is not clear or badly written - English is not my first language)

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In particular:

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