Maternity and women in art and history

a blog dedicated to women and maternity in art and history. How have the female role changed over the years? And how have maternity and pregnancy been portrayed in art through history?  people here

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Viggo Johansen (1851-1935)

Nanna and Her Mother

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Hendrick van der Burch - Woman with a Child Blowing Bubbles in a Garden - c. 1660

oil on panel, Height: 59 cm (23.2 in). Width: 50 cm (19.7 in).

Kunsthaus Zürich, Swiss

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Maternity - Camil Ressu

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A Fairy Tale - Lilla Cabot Perry

1912

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Francesco Jacovacci

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Sara Handing a Toy to the Baby - Mary Cassatt

1901

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John Henry Lorimer - Hush (1905–1906)

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Man Is at Sea (after Demont-Breton) - Vincent van Gogh

1889

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Mother and Daughter. George Goodwin Kilburne (English, 1839-1924). Kilburne was a genre painter specialising in accurately drawn interiors with figures. He favoured the watercolour medium, although he also worked in oils, pencil and - in his early career - engraving.

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HOOCH, Pieter de The Courtyard of a House in Delft 1658 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm National Gallery, London

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A Woman’s Work - John Sloan

1912

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Mother and Child Reading - Frederick Warren Freer

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Frederick Frieseke 

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Lady Beechey and Her Baby - William Beechey

1800

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Karl Briullov - Portrait of Countess Julia Pavlovna Samoilova moving away from the ball with her adopted daughter Amazilia Pacini (Masquerade)

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Maternity - Edmund Blair Leighton

1917

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Károly Brocky - Mother Swaddling a Child (after 1847)