A painting - a busy scene depicting a birth. At left is a canopied bed - the woman in the bed hands a baby to a man in a red cap and long black robe, seated in front of the bed. Behind the bed three angels kneel; two hold their palms together in prayer, and the one in the middle holds a sheet of music. In the center of the painting are two angels, one in front and one behind. The one behind is playing a harp. At right, between two columns, a woman carries a tray toward the bed. Between the two angels and the tray-bearing woman there are more figures visible in the distance, outdoors, beyond an arched doorway.

The Birth of the Virgin, 1659, by Sor #MaríaEvangelistaEnríquez (Spanish, 1576-1673). Source, www.investigart.com/2022/11/01/o... #NativityoftheBlessedVirginMary #NativityOfMary #womenartists #artherstory #Marymas #BirthoftheVirginMary #nuntastic #MariaEvangelistaEnriquez

An engraving depicting a birth scene, with two women kneeling in front washing a haloed baby in a basin. Behind them, other women attend to the mother in the bed. A bearded man looks in from a door.

Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 1727, engraved by Suor #IsabellaPiccini (#ElisabettaPiccini, Italian, 1644–1734), in Officium B. Mariae Virginis, Harvard University, Houghton Library #NativityoftheBlessedVirginMary #NativityOfMary #womenartists #artherstory #Marymas #BirthoftheVirginMary #nuntastic