A painting of a crowned, enthroned Madonna in a pink gown with a blue cloak, held off her shoulders by an angel on either side. She holds her bared left breast in her left hand, squirting milk at a kneeling tonsured male figure in white at the painting's lower left. (Beyond him, the faces of 4 other kneeling men are visible.) With her right hand, the Madonna holds a haloed baby Jesus on her lap, who nearly falls off as He reaches for a stalk of lily held by one of the four nuns kneeling at the painting's bottom right corner. At the bottom center of the artwork are some carpeted steps leading up to the throne. Between the tonsured male figure at left and the closest kneeling nun at right are a crozier at the side of the man, and a closed black book with two clasps at the nun's side.

Lactation of St. Bernard, btwn 1660 & 1670, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeObidos; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Museu Nacional Machado de Castro; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #FeastofStBernard #artherstory #womenartists