Flowers Of Youth: Images of Children from the National Gallery - Hardcover

Artists throughout history have produced works capturing the innocence and hope children represent. This volume presents 42 such paintings - from artists including Holbein, van Dyck, Renoir and Mary Cassatt - portraits of children with parents, siblings, playmates, pets and toys. Each picture is accompanied by a poem written for or about children, including favourites from Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.