The images linked below show some of the different sorts of bibs and aprons seen on babies and small children in 15th and 16th century artwork.

• St. Anne and the Three Marys, The Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier (BNF NAL 1416), 1452-1460
• Joseph in The St. Anne Altarpiece by Quentin Massys, 1507-1508
• Triptych with the Holy Kinship and the Trinity with members of the Merode-Petershem family, southern Netherlands, c. 1510
Goo hom, lytyl babe, and sytt on þi moderys lappe!
And put a mokador aforn þi brest,
And pray þi modyr to fede þe with þe pappe.

Play 21 from the N-Town Cycle, ll. 41-43

• Two pairs of farmers with children at a covered table by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c. 1525-1569
• Children's Games by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
• Matthaus is ill at the age of three, Schwartz Trachtenbuch, 1561
• Pierre de Moucheron, Merchant of Middelburg and Antwerp, and his family, 1563
• The Banquet by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, c. 1565
• Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568
• Antonius Anselmus, his wife and their children by Marten de Vos, 1577
• A young boy by Jacob Willemsz Delff I, 1581
• Portrait of a girl of the Walenburg family by Hans von Aachen, 1582
• Otto Venius painting, surrounded by his family, 1584
• Miniature portrait of an infant by Isaac Oliver, c. 1590
• Barbara Gamage, Lady Sidney, later Countess of Leicester, with two sons and four daughters, c. 1596
• A family group, c. 1655