Bartolomeo Vivarini
Altar of Our Lady of Mercy: Detail, the birth of Mary

St. Anne hands the child to a midwife, who will presumably wash her in the tub seen in the lower right.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.