A painting of an interior in which three women sit or kneel gazing at the child in the lap of the woman at the far left, who wears a pink gown and blue cloak (the Virgin Mary). The woman in the middle is older (Saint Anne?). The kneeling woman at the right is richly attired; in front of her is a broken wheel, the attribute of St. Catherine of Alexandria. In the background behind the women, two angels and a man presumably St. Joseph, look on.

Mystical Marriage of #StCatherine, c. 1640-60, by #JosefaDeÓbidos ( #JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by the National Museum of Ancient Art; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... #womenartists #artherstory #FeastOfStCatherine #StCatherineofAlexandria

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

A food still life painting depicting a plate with a small pile of three wheels of white-rind cheese, with 2 more cheese wheels just behind; a terra cotta jog; a small terra cotta bowl; and a woven wicker basket containing red cherries.

Still Life with a Basket of Cherries, Cheese & Clay Jars, 1670s, by #JosefadeÓbidos (or #JosefadeAyala Figueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #artherstory #womenartists

Mystical Marriage of St Catherine, btwn 1640 & 1660, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeObidos; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... #womenartists #artherstory

St John the Evangelist / São João Evangelista, 1650-60, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeObidos; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Portugal's Nat'l Museum of Ancient Art, www.matrizpix.dgpc.pt/matrizpix/Fo... #womenartists #FeastofStJohn #StJohntheEvangelist