Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games, 1560

Tree of Wisdom, early 15th c. Germany

Salvator Rosa, L’Umana Fragilità, c. 1657

Cornelis Ketel, Homo Bulla, 1574

Hieronymus Bosch, The Christ Child (?) with a Baby Walker and a Whirligig, late 15th c.

Jean-Siméon Chardin, Les bulles de savon, 1739

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, La Blanchisseuse, 1733

Edouard Manet, Bulles de savon, 1867/8

John Everett Millais, ‘Bubbles’, 1886

Velázquez, Prince Baltasar Carlos with an Attendant

Dwarf, 1632

Velázquez, Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback, 1634-5

Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Family of Philip IV),

1656

Francisco Goya, Childish Rage, c. 1825-8