See also Artwork of Nursing Mothers, 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
- A physician with a pregnant woman, Le Régime du corps (British Library Sloane 2435, fol. 27v), c. 1285
- 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
- John of Lycopolis and the miracle of healing the pregnant woman, Vitae patrum (PML M.626, fol. 33r), c. 1350-1375
- Leaf of a diptych: the doubt of Saint Joseph, 15th century
- David learns that the wife of Uriah is pregnant with his child, Ci nous dit (Musée Condé 26, fol. 245v), 14th century
- 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. 44v), 1463
- Madonna del Parto by Piero della Francesca, 1467
- The Libyan Sibyl (fol. 18v),
The Cumian Sybil (fol. 20v),
the Cimmerian Sibyl (fol. 22v),
the European Sybil (fol. 24v),
the Hours of Louis de Laval (BNF Latin 920), c. 1470-1475
- 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
- Visitation, the Hours of Anne de Bretagne (BNF Latin 9474, fol. 36v), c. 1503-1508
- La Donna Gravida by Rafael, 1505-06
- Memorial brass of Anne Wode (close-up of her babies and laced dress), c. 1512
- The parents of Matthaus Schwartz: his father Ulrich, aged 70 years, and his mother Agnes, pregnant (BNF Allemand 211, fol. 3v), c. 1520-1560
- 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 Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys by Steven van der Meulen, 1562
- Portrait of Mildred Cook, 1563
- Portrait of Bianca Capello by Lavinia Fontana
- Portrait of a noblewoman by Lavinia Fontana
- Portrait of a noblewoman by Scipione Pulzone, 1594
- Portrait of an unknown lady attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, c. 1595
- Barbara Gamage, Lady Sidney, later Countess of Leicester, with two sons and four daughters, c. 1596
- Anne, Lady Pope with her children by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1596
- Portrait of Margaret of Austria, painted c. 1603
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