Public domain art: boys
Artworks depicting boys, catalogued by the museums that hold them. Each one is free to download, with its colour palette extracted from the image and its maximum print size measured at 300 DPI.
Works in Public domain art: boys

Portrait of a Boy
Louis Léopold Boilly

Study of a Boy Carving a Crucifix
Toby E. Rosenthal

Mrs. Daniel Strobel, Jr. (Anna Church Strobel) and Her Son, George
John Vanderlyn

Frances and Charles Cowdrey
Henry Walton

Handscroll
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

Feeding the Dog
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Boy with an Egg, Girl with a Hen, and a Watching Woman
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Ja'far Baisunghuri

Head of a Youth with a Diadem
Cristoforo Caselli

江戸の花 娘浄瑠璃|A Woman Playing with a Young Boy
Kitagawa Utamaro

Katsushika Hokusai

『雪中梅荘群児遊戯 図』|Children Playing in the Snow under Plum Trees in Bloom (Secchū baisō gunji yūgi zu)
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

梅|Blowing Soap Bubbles Under the Plum Blossom
Suzuki Harunobu

歌川五雲亭貞秀画 『横浜休日 魯西亜人遊行』|Russians Enjoying a Holiday in Yokohama (Yokohama kyūjitsu Roshiajin yūkō)
Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

Lionel Tennyson, Freshwater
Julia Margaret Cameron

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Banks
Myron H. Kimball

Shelling Beans, Argentelle
Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard
![Lieutenant Washington, a Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custis [sic] (for Custer) U.S.A.](/img/cc061168e27c/400.webp)
Lieutenant Washington, a Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custis [sic] (for Custer) U.S.A.
Alexander Gardner

Déjatch Alámayou, King Theodore's Son
Julia Margaret Cameron

Harry Strangways, present Lord Ilchester; From a Picture Taken from a Church at Kertch
Jane Martha St. John

Learning is Wealth—Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans
Charles Paxson

Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans
Myron H. Kimball

Sergeant John Lincoln Clem, The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga
Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland

Frank, Frederick & Alice. "The Children of the Battle Field"
Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown

Study, Head of a Boy
Therèse Éléonore (Hemery) Lingée

Two Boys Sleeping Besides a Tree
Marie Jeanne Boucher

The Supreme Bon Ton, No. 3
S. W. Fores

Desire (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward

Admiration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward

Horror
Thomas Rowlandson

Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
![Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Amphion and Zethus Tying Dirce to a Wild Bull [The Farnese Bull]](/img/b51027f708a2/400.webp)
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Amphion and Zethus Tying Dirce to a Wild Bull [The Farnese Bull]
Diana Scultori

Christmas Eve, 1862 (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 7, pp. 8-9)
Thomas Nast

Desire
Rudolph Ackermann, London

Boy with a Stick
Elizabeth Forbes

Public School
Thomas Rowlandson

Private School
Thomas Rowlandson

Mr. Prudhomme and young Adolph, from 'News of the Day,' published in Le Charivari, January 27, 1860
Destouches

–You take your pin-gun in your hand like this.... you fire... puff... this kills ten times more people than the old system... –Ah, yes papa, this is what one calls progress, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 8, 1866
Destouches

Plate 27: Robert Macaire, merchant, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
Charles Philipon

Tricks Upon Travellers
Henry William Bunbury

A Family Piece
Henry William Bunbury

A Family Piece
Thomas Rowlandson

Polygamy, or Plurality of Wives
Thomas Rowlandson

Polygamy, or Plurality of Wives
Rudolph Ackermann, London

The Old Womans Complaint, or the Greek Alphabet
Thomas Rowlandson

The Old Womans Complaint, or the Greek Alphabet
Thomas Tegg

Evening, or, the Man of Feeling
Thomas Rowlandson

Evening, or, the Man of Feeling
Rudolph Ackermann, London

Evening, or A Man of Feeling
Henry William Bunbury

Putto on a pedestal against background of verdure
French Painter

Door panel from the "Cabinet Turc" of Comte d'Artois at Versailles
Jean -Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière

Manuscript Illumination with Joseph Sold by His Brothers in an Initial V, from an Antiphonary
Giovanni Pietro da Cemmo

Manuscript Leaf with Saint Benedict Resuscitating a Boy in an Initial D, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius
![[Boy and Girl Holding Hands]](/img/cb4ba2564315/400.webp)
[Boy and Girl Holding Hands]
Bennet

Professor Schneider's Children
W. & F. Langenheim

California News
Gabriel Harrison

Frederick David Langenheim
W. & F. Langenheim

Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton)
General Tom Thumb

Elizabeth Page Bakewell and her Grandson, Frank B. James
John Plumbe Jr.