El Greco on Breastfeeding

The Holy Family with Saint Anne, by El Greco

Oil on canvas, 138 x 103.5 cm

Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary

Gentileschi on Breastfeeding

Madonna and Child, Orazio Gentileschi, c. 1609

Painting - oil on canvas

Height: 98.43 cm (38.75 in.), Width: 74.93 cm (29.5 in.)

Workshop of Albrecht Dürer on Breastfeeding

The Virgin and Child ('The Madonna with the Iris')

Painted by unknown assistants of Albrecht Dürer, circa about 1500-10.

The National Gallery, London.

Detailed information, here.

Purchase a print, here.

Muter on Breastfeeding

Pieta on the Rhone, Maternity, and Children

all works by Mela Muter (Maria Melania Mutermilch),

1876-1967.

Found here and here.

Kramer on Breastfeeding

Self-Portrait Breastfeeding Raloon, after Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

Marjorie Kramer, 1976, oil on canvas, 36 x 22 inches.

"I was very struck with the intimacy of the Lorenzetti painting in Siena with a kicking christ, also with an Utamaro print of a mother and child with the baby drinking out of one nipple and holding the other. I wanted to show that the wonderful child, perhaps savior of the world could be a female.This me and my daughter Raloon when she was about 18 months old as I recall. We used to go to the Metropolitian Museum of Art and she would point and smile at the babies in the paintings, especially nursing babies."

--Marjorie Kramer

Quote and image via Art in Context.

Thank you to Jen for letting me know about this fantastic piece and artist!

Rubens on Breastfeeding

Maria Lactans, Peter Paul Rubens, 1614

The Master of the Magdalene Legend on Breastfeeding

Madonna Nursing the Christ Child,

Master of the Magdalen Legend

(Flemish, active in Brussels, late 15th-16th century),

c. late 15th century.

Tempera on oak panel,

9 3/16 x 7 3/16 x 1/4 in. (23.3 x 18.3 x 0.6 cm).

Brooklyn Museum.

David on Breastfeeding

Madonna and Child, Gerard David
1490
Oil on panel
Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Memmi on Breastfeeding

Maria Lactans
Lippo Memmi (also known as Filippo di Memmo), c. 1340s
Collection: Berlin, Staatliche Museen
oil on poplar panel, approx. 12 in. x 8 in.

Via Flickr

Solario on Breastfeeding

Madonna with the Green Cushions (Maria Lactans), Andrea Solario,
1st quarter of 16th century, oil on wood,
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Rembrandt on Breastfeeding

The Holy Family, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

183 x 123 cm

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

van Eyck on Breastfeeding

Maria Lactans by Jan van Eyck, c. 1436

Titian on Breastfeeding

The Virgin Suckling the Infant Christ, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio),

about 1565-75.

Read more about the artist and the painting.

Leonardo da Vinci on Breastfeeding

Madonna and Child by Leonardo da Vinci

I Can See Your Halo

Madonna and Child Project, by artist Kate Hansen. Lovely.

Breastfeeding Baby Jesus

You must read this amazing post on the blog Peaceful Parenting! Danelle has assembled a beautiful and inspiring array of images from art history depicting the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ Child. What a wonderful celebration of the everyday miracle that is breastfeeding. Via Gloria Lemay's facebook (by the way, Gloria is all kinds of awesome and she always posts the best links! Her Facebook status currently reads, Quote of the day, Sheila Stubbs: "If Jesus were born today, he would have been induced and c-sectioned three weeks early because a virgin birth is far too risky." Word.