Childhood

Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a colored illustration of a group of people in 18th or 19th-century attire in an interior room. The room has green walls and a large window covered by a curtain on the right. A fireplace mantle with a clock and framed pictures on the wall is on the left. The people are dressed in old-fashioned clothing, with the men wearing coats and white pants, and the women wearing dresses and hats. One woman sits on the left in a pink dress and white hat; a man sits to her right in a gray coat and white pants. A child stands between them, and a woman sits on the right in a white dress. Another child plays on the floor in front; an adult in a green outfit bends over the child. A woman stands in the background. The text at the top reads "Les Petites Felicites humaines." The bottom text reads "L'Enfance!" and "Les Poucettes, les Joujoux, les bonbons, les mises en culotte." The artist's name, Henry Bonaventure Monnier, is written in small letters at the bottom left.