# Magdalena and Jan-Baptist de Vos [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VOS, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 92 cm ## Commentary Magdalena and Jan-Baptist de Vos c. 1622 Oil on canvas, 78 x 92 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin Children are notoriously hard to paint, whether they are the artist's own or someone else's. About 1622, when de Vos portrayed his four-year-old daughter Magdalena and his son Jean-Baptist, one year her junior, he dressed them in party finery but seated them outdoors, with a textile hanging behind them. A setting sun at the upper right is in striking contrast to the ebullience of these fruit-eating infants. ## Related artworks - [Abraham Grapheus]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Transience]() - [Apollo and the Python]() - [Birth of Venus]() - [Card Players]() - [Elisabeth \(or Cornelia\) Vekemans as a Young Girl]() - [Family Portrait]() - [Players and Courtesans under a Tent]() - [Portrait of a Boy]() - [Portrait of a Girl at the Age of 10]() - [Portrait of a Lady in Elegant Dress]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()