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| Jan Soens Self Portrait held by the Artist's Sons ca. 1610 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Elisabetta Sirani Infant St John the Baptist in the Wilderness 1664 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Jan Steen The Children's Meal ca. 1665 oil on panel Nivågård Museum, Denmark |
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| attributed to Bernard Perrot Putto as Table Decoration (part of a suite) ca. 1685 glass Musée du Louvre |
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| James Ross and John Thomson A Happy Dream ca. 1862-63 albumen print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of Kate Keown 1866 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench Portrait of Pepito, the Artist's Son 1880 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain |
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| John Sloan Young Boy 1896 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Edward Steichen Katherine Eunice Starr 1907 autochrome Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Maurice Prendergast Portrait of a Boy ca. 1910 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Tina Modotti Untitled ca. 1927-28 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Irving Penn New York Child 1949 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard Figure with Dolls 1959 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Portrait of the artist's daughter Ellen 1969 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Herbert Randall Untitled 1970 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Julian Opie Untitled ca. 2005 screenprint Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Nora Othic Boy with Livestock 2019 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Evening. A slick and unctuous Time
Has sold us yet another shop-soiled day,
Patently rusty, not even in a gaudy box.
I have dusted the six small rooms:
The parlour, once the magnificent image of my freedom,
And the bedroom, which once held for me
The mysterious languors of Egypt and the terrifying Indias.
The delivery vans have paid their brief impersonal visits.
I have eaten a scrappy lunch from a plate on my knee.
I have spoken with acquaintances in the Stores;
Under our treble gossip heard the menacing throb of our hearts
As I hear them now, as all of us hear them,
Standing at our stoves in these villas, expecting our husbands:
The drums of an enormous and routed army,
Throbbing raggedly, fitfully, scatteredly, madly.
We are lost. We are lost.
– W.H. Auden (1936)