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Virgin and Child
ca. 1480–90
A mother breastfeeding her baby
Manuel Manilla
ca. 1880–1895
Luz Jimenez Breastfeeding Her Baby
Tina Modotti
1926
A female satyr breastfeeding an child to the right, turned towards the left, a satyr child on the ground to the left, from "Landscapes and seaports" (Paysages et ports de mer, dans des ronds)
Stefano della Bella
1639
Tang Furen, from the series Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
ca. 1840
Charity
Guido Reni
ca. 1630
Eliezer and Rebecca, two servants behind her at right and a seated woman breastfeeding at left
Giovanni Volpato
ca. 1750–1803
Six Men and Women Beggars
Wenceslaus Hollar
1630
Plate 30 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Ravages of War' (Estragos de la guerra)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1810
Wilton album, folio 97: The Virgin Mary seated in profile to the right, holding the breastfeeding Christ child and dangling a cherry for the young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Elizabeth at right and Joseph in the background at left
Elisabetta Sirani
ca. 1655–1665
Untitled (people seated around a table eating, woman breastfeeding on the left, trees, cows and houses in background)
Joseph de Longueil
18th century
Diptych with Scenes of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, Saint Michael, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, and the Trinity
German
ca. 1350
Virgin and Child
Netherlandish (Antwerp) Painter
Roma Mother with Children
Cornelis Visscher
c. 1657; this state printed 1658 or later
Roma Mother with Children
Cornelis Visscher
ca. 1656–57
Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts
1475–99
Archaeological Plate from Collection for Book Illustrations, Containing a Rural Feast Scene
Anonymous, French, 18th century
18th century
Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts
1475–99
Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph
Netherlandish Painter, second half of 16th century
second half 16th century
The Virgin with the Christ child in her lap breastfeeding, Joseph at left and two angels at right
Francesco Albani
ca. 1655–83