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Painting of a baby wearing an adult-style bonnet and velvet jacket. She is swaddled very tightly from the chest down and is lying on a pillow Add to board
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Portrait of Cornelia Burch aged Two Months - Dutch School, 1581

Portrait of Cornelia Burch aged Two Months - Dutch School. Oil on canvas, 1581.  Paintings of babies from this period are extremely rare.  Notice how tightly she is swaddled'

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