Les Derniers Jours d'Enfance
1883–1885 · Oil on canvas · Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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This print

About this work
- Artist
- Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942)
- Year
- 1883–1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 116.2 × 137.2 cm
- Collection
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
- Movement
- Realism
Beaux's sister Aimée Ernesta Drinker sits in a dark dress holding her young son, Henry, in a white suit on her lap, beside a small table with a vase of blossoms, on a patterned rug in a brown interior. The title means the last days of childhood. The painting won the Mary Smith Prize at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1885 and was praised at the Paris Salon in 1887, launching Beaux's career as a portraitist. It was given to the Academy by the sitters' family in 1989.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A warm brown and black mother-and-child portrait for a living room, bedroom or hallway in a dark wood frame. It suits cream, terracotta or warm grey walls at 12×18 and pairs with Beaux's Man with the Cat.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1883–1885)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, hallway or entryway, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.





















