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| Rembrandt Study of Model 1646 etching Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Model posed as Adonis ca. 1810-12 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alexis Gouin Model Delphine Herbé 1851-52 hand-colored daguerreotypes (stereograph) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) Study of a Young Woman in a Landscape ca. 1870 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Mariano Fortuny Study of an Old Man in the Sun 1871 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Standing Model ca. 1881-84 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| John Douglas Patrick Study of Model's Back ca. 1890 drawing Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Denman Waldo Ross Seated Model ca. 1890 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure with Pole ca. 1890-1900 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Kenyon Cox Allegorical Figure of Science (study for mural at Iowa State Capitol) 1905 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Lovis Corinth Seated Model 1908 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Standing Model ca. 1913 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| George Bellows Figure Study for Riverfront no. 1 ca. 1915 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Norman Blamey Convalescent Soldier in Sidon Hospital, Lebanon 1943 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Smutty 1980 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Howard Tangye Richard C. on Ochre Paper 1997 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Everybody Who is Dead
When a man knows another man
Is looking for him
He doesn't hide.
He doesn't wait
To spend another night
With his wife
Or put his children to sleep.
He puts on a clean shirt and a dark suit
And goes to the barber shop
To let another man shave him.
He shuts his eyes
Remembers himself as a boy
Lying naked on a rock by the water.
Then he asks for the special lotion.
The old men line up by the chair
And the barber pours a little
In each of their hands.
– Frank Stanford (1979)