Probably executed during his stay in Bruxelles, "Children With Lizard" demonstrates Rodin's affinity during the early part of his career with the sculpture of academicians such as Jean Baptiste Carpeaux and of eighteenth century Rococo masters such as Michel Claude Clodion. The mood of the sculpture is essentially frivolous, while its technique is suggestive rather than defined.

The piece is entirely within the aesthetics of the generation of masters proceeding Rodin. Having mastered the forms and means of decorative carving in works such as "Children With Lizard", the sculptor soon developed the tauter, more innovative style of his first major work "Age of Bronze".