The fathers depicted below range from heartwarming to outright bizarre.
What we're trying to say is: Thank you Dads of the world! We realize and appreciate all your hard work, even if we don't say it enough. Enjoy the pics below and have a happy, happy Father's Day!
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Dorothea Lange
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry
1942
Gabriel Decker
Portrait of a father and his Son
1850
Watercolor on paper
Edgar Degas
Degas' Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans
1869
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Peter Paul Rubens
Saturn, Jupiter's father, devours one of his sons, Neptune
1636-1638
oil on canvas
Prado Museum
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Creation of Adam
1510
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy
Auguste de Châtillon
Victor Hugo with his son François-Victor (detail)
1836
oil on canvas
Maison de Victor Hugo (Paris)
William Blake
God Judging Adam
Etching, ink, watercolor
Barthel Bruyn the Elder
Portrait of a Man with Three Sons
1530
oil on canvas
Hermitage Museum
Eugene Delacroix
Hamlet Sees the Ghost of his Father
1843
Maurycy Gottlieb
Recha Welcoming Her Father. From an incomplete series of illustrations for the play Nathan the Wise.
1877
Francisco Goya
Saturn Devouring His Son
1823
Rembrandt van Rijn
Portrait of Rembrandt's Father
Ford Madox Brown
Lear and Cordelia
1849-54
Oil on canvas
Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, the Artist's Grandfather
1881
Utagawa Kunisada
Father and Son Members of the Forty Seven Rônin from Chûshingura
Pierre Mignard
Philippe de France with his favourite daughter Marie Louise (future Queen of Spain)
Date circa 1670
oil on canvas
Palace of Versailles
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