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| Arthur Kampf Women binding Sheaves ca. 1930-40 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Jules Bastien-Lepage Haymaking 1877 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Gustave Courbet Winnowing Grain 1854 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes |
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| Henri Lehmann Mariuccia 1841 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Charles Maurin Children's Nurse seated on a Bench ca. 1890 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Hans Olde Milkmaids in Borgfeld 1899 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones The Shoe Shop ca. 1911 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones Shop Girls ca. 1912 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Max Liebermann Bleaching Ground 1882 oil on canvas Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Laundresses in a Grotto ca. 1650 oil on panel Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Shepherdess with Bowl of Grapes 1628 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Louis-Joseph Anthonissen Pressers in a Trouville Workshop 1888 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Robert A. Robinson Jenny and Magnus digging Potatoes 1957 gelatin silver print Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo |
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| Bertil Lybeck Quartier Latin 1915 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Ludwig von Beniczky Venetian Fishing Family 1846 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Sigmar Polke Man feeding Chickens 2005 acrylic on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
Chorus:
Come now, dear serving-women of the house,
when, pray, shall we display
the power of our lips in aid of Orestes?
O mighty Earth, O mighty mound
of the tomb that now lies heaped
over the corpse of the king who commanded the fleet,
now give ear, now give aid!
For now is the right time for guileful Persuasion
to enter the arena together with him, and for Hermes of the Night,
Hermes of the Underworld, to watch over these men
in their deadly contest with the sword.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)