Artistic Kin

Théodore Chassériau
Portrait of Aline Chassériau
(the artist's sister)
1835
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Joseph von Fuhrich
Portrait of the artist's sister Maria
ca. 1830
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Julius Hübner
Portrait of the artist's Sister
1824
oil on copper
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Georg Rueter
Portrait of Louise Rueter
(the artist's sister)
1899
oil on canvas
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Polychronis Lembesis
Portrait of the artist's Brother
ca. 1885-90
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Wilhelm von Kobell
Portrait Study of the artist's Mother
1794
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacques-François Delyen
Portrait of the artist's Mother
1714
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes

Egon Schiele
The artist's Mother asleep
1911
watercolor and gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Adalbert Begas
Portrait of Karl Joseph Begas
(father of the artist)
1848
etching and aquatint
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lovis Corinth
Portrait of the artist's father, Franz Heinrich Corinth
1883
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Paul Mathey
Portrait of Pierre Mathey
(the artist's father)
ca. 1875
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Hendrik Leys
Portrait of Lucie Leys
(daughter of the artist)
1865
oil on panel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Hans Thoma
Portrait of Ella Blaue
(the artist's adopted daughter)
1903
oil on board
National Museum, Warsaw

Anton Graff
Portrait of Caroline Susanne Graff
(daughter of the artist)
1801
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Franz Barwig
Portrait Study of the artist's Son
ca. 1921
drawing
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Erik Werenskiold
Portrait of Dagfin Werenskiold
(son of the artist)
1917
oil on canvas
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

My life's cable, Myiscus, is made fast to thee; in thee is all the breath that is left to my soul.  For by thy eyes, dear boy, that speak even to the deaf, and by thy bright brow I swear it, if ever thou lookest at me with a clouded eye I see the winter, but if thy glance be blithe, the sweet spring bursts into bloom. 

Bravely shall I bear the sharp pain in my vitals and bond of the cruel fetters.  For it is not now only, Nicander, that I learn to know the wounds of love, but often have I tasted desire.  Do both thou, Adrasteia, and thou, Nemesis, bitterest of the immortals, exact due vengeance for his evil resolve. 

Love has discovered what beauty to mix with beauty; not emerald with gold, which neither sparkles nor could ever be its equal, nor ivory with ebony, black with white, but Cleander with Eubiotus, two flowers of Persuasion and Friendship. 

Sweet it is to mix with wine the bees' sugary liquor, and sweet to love a boy when oneself is lovely too, even as Alexis now loves soft-haired Cleobulus.  These two are the immortal metheglin of Cypris. 

Last evening Mocris, at the hour when we bid good night, embraced me, I know not whether in reality or in a dream.  I remember now quite accurately everything else, what he said to me and the questions he asked, but whether he kissed me too or not I am at a loss to know; for if it be true, how is it that I, who then became a god, am walking about on earth? 

I swore to thee, son of Cronos, that never, not even to myself, would I utter what Theudis told me I might have.  But my froward soul flies high in exultation and cannot contain the good.  But I will out with it: pardon me, Zeus.  "He yielded."  Father Zeus, what delight is there in good fortune that is known to none? 

– from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)