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![Sculpture, Family I, Nando Kallweit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/882798_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Generaciones, Adrian Gonzalez Torrez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220379_1_grid.jpg)
Generaciones
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,160
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![Painting, Mother and Child, Ly Hung Anh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1070244_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, After Baby Diary, Dang Thoa Ngoc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1060887_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Mother and Child, Irene Pereyra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/920826_1_grid.jpg)
Mother and Child
Irene Pereyra
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 23 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
$345
![Painting, Plage, Miquel Wert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214831_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le petit pilier, Miquel Wert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214805_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La Mère et l'Enfant / The Mother & the Child (Edith Schiele and nephew / Edith Schiele und Neffe / Edith Schiele et son neveu) - 1915, Egon Schiele](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/320974_1_grid.jpg)
La Mère et l'Enfant / The Mother & the Child (Edith Schiele and nephew / Edith Schiele und Neffe / Edith Schiele et son neveu) - 1915
Egon Schiele
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
$862
![Painting, Lili, AE2](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1531335_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Out of child mom child, Marcel Timmers](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1183671_1_grid.jpg)
Out of child mom child
Marcel Timmers
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$862
![Painting, La mère et l'enfant, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1436874_1_grid.jpg)
La mère et l'enfant
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,494
![Fine Art Drawings, Safe zone, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1452705_1_grid.jpg)
Safe zone
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,723
![Painting, Unbreakable, Shake](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1447923_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Visa-vie, Fanjol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/433326_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Rue Mouffetard - Triptych, Uwe Ommer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/850680_1_grid.jpg)
Rue Mouffetard - Triptych
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 45 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.71 x 39.37 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
![Print, Matremonial Blessing, Tosin Oyeniyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726230_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Lovers, Karine Giboulo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/180841_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Rendille Mother and Child, John Kenny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/924855_1_grid.jpg)
Rendille Mother and Child
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,081
![Painting, Les gosses de la plage, Valérie Betoulaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/924072_1_grid.jpg)
Les gosses de la plage
Valérie Betoulaud
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,332
![Painting, Flowers and cigarettes, AE2](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528416_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paris, Place de Clichy, Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1358487_1_grid.jpg)
Paris, Place de Clichy
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,838
![Painting, Father and Kid, Jef Aérosol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1323279_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Inchoy and child, John Kenny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/731007_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mother and child, Eyitayo Alagbe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1930800_1_grid.jpg)
Mother and child
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$5,000
![Sculpture, Parents hugging, children sleeping, Karine Giboulo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/200155_1_grid.jpg)
Parents hugging, children sleeping
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 14 x 16 x 6 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 6.3 x 2.4 inch
$3,447
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![Painting, Mother and child, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1784286_1_grid.jpg)
Mother and child
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 105 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,470
![Painting, Fatherhood, Nina Narimanishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1341027_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans Titre / Mère, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1947798_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Nous sommes tous des enfants, Jean Valera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/974781_1_grid.jpg)
Nous sommes tous des enfants
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$126
![Painting, Avec eux, Victorine Follana](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2028105_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Eternal Comeback, Nizaac Vallejo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154932_1_grid.jpg)
Eternal Comeback
Nizaac Vallejo
Painting - 220 x 260 x 2 cm Painting - 86.6 x 102.4 x 0.8 inch
$73,529
![Painting, The Happy Family XXI, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1028931_1_grid.jpg)
The Happy Family XXI
Angu Walters
Painting - 90 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,300
![Painting, Protect the Children, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1674153_1_grid.jpg)
Protect the Children
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,034
![Photography, Réunion en famille, série une famille Française, Didier Bizet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1255878_1_grid.jpg)
Réunion en famille, série une famille Française
Didier Bizet
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$345
![Painting, Pastorale africaine - Complicité, frères et soeurs, Catherine Clare](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146379_1_grid.jpg)
Pastorale africaine - Complicité, frères et soeurs
Catherine Clare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,068 $1,861
![Painting, Le scarabée d'or, Catherine Clare](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146327_1_grid.jpg)
Le scarabée d'or
Catherine Clare
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$2,068 $1,861
![Painting, Regarder l'enfance, Véronique Baleste](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159435_1_grid.jpg)
Regarder l'enfance
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$689
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![Painting, Ce sont nos enfants, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1388595_1_grid.jpg)
Ce sont nos enfants
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 73 x 113 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 44.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,021
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![Sculpture, Trans parent ces, Fanjol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/956133_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Les enfants flippants II, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1411461_1_grid.jpg)
Les enfants flippants II
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 55 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$862
Inspired by Parenthood
Parenthood and familial scenes have offered much inspiration to artists throughout the centuries of art history. Prehistoric art shows us some of the first parents in art history with the mother goddess, a sovereign force of creation. In the West, the subject of parenthood has permeated throughout religious artifacts and Christian iconography. God serves as the original paternal figure to humankind. Nowhere is the presence of God, the Father, shown more fervently in artworks of the Renaissance. The omnipotent presence of God as the eternal father in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam provides the archetypal example. Likewise the Madonna figure is idolized among Christians as the venerated maternal figure of origin.
It is said that there is nothing more gratifying than nurturing children. From infanthood to childhood to adulthood, the saying is that it 'takes a village'. This is the narrative captured by the photographic work of Didier Bizet. His award-winning Baby boom series is inspired by a generation of parents.
Artworks inspired by parenthood do not always transpire as scenes of domestic bliss. Situations including domineering patriarchs, discord and separation often lean towards scenes of familial dysfunctionality rather than domestic harmony. Perhaps the popularity of artworks inspired by parenthood lies in the subject matter's honesty. Not all artworks inspired by parenthood depict scenes of happy families. Explore a vast array of artworks inspired by parenthood on Artsper through the work of Waleria Matelska, Alfredo Vilchis Roque, among other artists.