Boy with a Spinning-Top

Boy with a Spinning-Top or Child with a Teetotum is a 1738 painting by Jean Siméon Chardin, now in the Louvre in Paris, which acquired it in 1907. 
It is based on now in the São Paulo Museum of Art and shows Auguste-Gabriel, son of the jeweller Charles Godefroy, contemplating a teetotum or spinning top, in line with Age of Enlightenment ideas on childhood and play, especially those of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. On the table in the background are an inkwell, a pen and books, whilst a drawer in the table is open to show a porte-crayon.