Red haired Mothers with child

Notice please that it more often happens,

 that the artist  place the mother to the left side of the picture than to the right..

It is a psychological effect , the world is to the left and home is to the right side. 

When the mother sits in the left side she protects .

 If she sits in the right she let the child have a certain freedom.

I speculated if  another  reason could be that we mothers carry the baby on our left side,

 so we have the right arm free to do things with.

So perhaps the few painting with mothers in the left side of the picture

 actually show left handed mothers?

Hans Thuar
German Artist 1887-1945

J. Mainberger after Von Kaulbach
Found in German Auctionsite

Marie Danforth Page
"Her littlest one"
American painter 1869-1940

Garibaldi Melcher

Rosalie Lorrain Gill
American Painter

Tamara de Lempicka

Gustave Klimt

Stanislaw Wyspianski
Portrait of Salomea Hankiewiczsowa

Poul S Nielsen
Mother and child
Danish Artist

Virgin Mary

Max Corneille

Mary Cassatt
"Sleepy"

Evert Lundquist
Mother and child
Swedish Artist

Julius Garibaldi Melcher

Edvard Manet

Mary Cassatt

Carlton Alfred Smith

Norbert Goeneutte

Giovanni Segantini

Giovanni Segantini

A remarkable frame.It looks like Leonardo da Vinci designed it.

Carl Wilhelmsohn

Mary Cassatt

Jacob van Doorth
Portrait of Anna Catharina Brandenburg

Joseph Raphael
"In the Garden"

Andrea del Brescianino