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Painting

In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus ' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1460), Juan de Flandes ' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1505), Frans Hals ' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velázquez ' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen 's The Feast of St. Nicolas (about 1660) and Johannes Vermeer 's Girl with a Pearl Earring along with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. Later paintings of girls include Albert Anker 's portrait of a Girl with a Domino Tower and Camille Pissarro 's 1883 Portrait of a Felix Daughter.

Mary Cassatt painted many famous Impressionist works that idealize the innocence of girls and the mother-daughter bond, for example her 1884 work Children on the Beach. During the same era, Whistler 's Harmony in Gray and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander and The White Girl depict girls in the same light.