Never paint children or animals, says the rule. This tribute to artists who ignored the rule shows work by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Goya, and others to Mary Cassatt.
Petter
In the mid 1800s, battledore was played by young women rather than children, then gained its characteristic net.
You’d think a painting of him in battle would be ideal, not one of him being dragged from a brothel.
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