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| Jan Wellens de Cock Landsknechte ca. 1520-25 woodcut British Museum |
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| Bernardino Luini Virgin and Child with St Catherine 1525 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Baldassare Peruzzi Study of Woman and Two Men before 1536 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans Speckaert Supplicants bearing Gifts before 1577 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans von Aachen The Road to Emmaus ca. 1585 drawing British Museum |
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| Dietrich Krüger after Gabriel Weyer Summer 1613 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Bernard Picart after François Girardon Abduction of Proserpine (print study after statue group at Versailles) ca. 1705 drawing British Museum |
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| Willem van Mieris Maids adorning Bathsheba after the Bath before 1747 charcoal on vellum British Museum |
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| Jan Hendrik Neuman Portrait of the Metelerkamp Family 1851-52 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti The German Lesson (caricature of William and Jane Morris with German-speaking Maid) 1869 drawing British Museum |
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| Christian Waller Women of Faery 1932 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Helen Levitt New York ca. 1942 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Hirsch Naples 1944 drawing Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Larry Fink MOMA Benefit NYC 1977 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Joel Sternfeld New Jersey (#14) 1980 inkjet print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ken Regan Caroline Kennedy, JFK Jr and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1980 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| John Thomas Triptych with Predella before 2000 oil on canvas Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
He had wisely seen the World at home and abroad, and thereby observed under what variety Men are deluded in the pursuit of that which is not here to be found. And altho he had no Opinion of reputed Felicities below, and apprehended Men widely out in the estimate of such Happiness; yet his sober contempt of the World wrought no Democritism or Cynicism, no laughing or snarling at it, as well understanding there are not real Felicities enough in this World to satisfie a serious Mind; and therefore to soften the stream of our Lives, we are fain to take in the reputed Contentations of this World, to unite with the Crowd in their Opinion, or Co-existimation: for strictly to separate from received and customary Felicities, and to confine unto the rigor of Realities, were to contract the Consolation of our Beings unto too uncomfortable Circumscriptions.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)