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See also Artwork of Nursing Mothers, What Nursing Mothers Wore: Period Options for Nursing Garb, and Maternity and Nursing Wear for some clothing options for 14th-16th century wetnurses and nursing mothers.
- The Woman Clothed in the Sun (Getty Ludwig III 1, fol. 19v), c. 1255-1260; she appears to be wearing a gardecorps rather than a sleeveless surcoat
- Scenes from the Life of the Virgin: Visitation by Giotto, 1306
- A pregnant woman, The Sermons of Maurice de Sully (BNF Fr. 187, fol. 14v), c. 1320-1330
- Visitation, The Petites Heures of Jean de Berry (BNF Fr. Latin 18014, fol. 32v), c. 1375
- Visitation in the Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame (BNF NAL 3093, fol. 20v), c. 1380
- Juno, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598, fol. 11), beginning of the 15th century
- The woman clothed with Sun, The Berry Apocalypse (PML M.133, fol. 36v), c. 1415
- A pregnant shepherdess in a 15th century book of hours (BNF Lat. 1159, fol. 57v)
- St. Anne, a book of hours (PML M.359, fol. 22v), c. 1430-1435
- Visitation by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1445
- Miracle of Our Lady: The pregnant woman rescued from the flood, Jean Mansel's Fleur des Histoires (BNF Fr. 56, fol. 119v), second half of the 15th century
- Abraham sends Hagar away, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 44), 1463
- Madonna del Parto by Piero della Francesca, 1467
- Woman in bed, from book 7 of Augustine's City of God (MMW 10 A 11, fol. 312v), c. 1475-1480
- The adulteress accuses Pelagius (St. Margaret) of fathering her child, The Golden Legend (BNF Fr. 245, fol. 132), c. 1480-1490
- La Donna Gravida by Rafael, 1505-06
- Memorial brass of Anne Wode (close-up of her babies and laced dress), c. 1512
- The daughters of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein, 1526
- Cecily Heron by Hans Holbein, c. 1526-1527
- Portrait of Livia da Porto Thiene and her daughter Porzia by Paolo Veronese, c. 1551
- Portrait of an unknown lady attributed to William Segar, c. 1595
- Portrait of Margaret of Austria, painted c. 1603
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