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| John Singer Sargent Portrait of a Boy 1890 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Henri Evenepoel Portrait of Louis-Charles Crespin 1895 oil on canvas Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Brussels |
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| Jean-André Rixens Portrait of the artist's daughter Léa 1902 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours |
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| Josef Engelhart Portrait of Michel 1908 oil on board Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| August Macke Blonde Girl with Doll 1910 oil on canvas Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
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| Ivan Aguéli Portrait Study 1915 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Lovis Corinth Portrait of the artist's children Wilhelmine and Thomas 1916 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Max Slevogt Nina and Wolfgang Slevogt 1917 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus Munich |
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| Mollie Faustman Girl against Blue Water ca. 1920 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Charley Toorop Portrait of Eddy and John Fernhout 1926 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Erich Ockert Portrait of a Child (Annelies Ockert) 1927 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Arvid Fougstedt Erik at Vickleby 1930 gouache on paper Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Pablo Picasso Jeunesse 1950 lithograph Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Kenneth Hood Figure and Harbour ca. 1951-54 oil on glass National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Alexander Schultz Portrait of a Boy 1956 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Börje Almquist Autumn 1979 gelatin silver print from infrared film Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Orestes [turning to Apollo]: Testify now for me, Apollo, and expound whether I killed her with justice. That I did the deed, as is the fact, I do not deny, but judge this bloodshed, whether I seem in your eyes to have done it justly or not, so that I may tell this court.
Apollo [to the court]: I shall say to you, to this great institution ordained by Athena, "justly"; and I shall not be telling a lie. I have never said anything on my prophetic throne – not about a man, not about a woman, not about a city – except at the bidding of Zeus, father of the Olympians. I tell you solemnly to understand well how strong is this plea of justification, and I tell you to follow the counsel of the Father; for an oath can in no way be stronger than Zeus.
Chorus of Furies: Zeus, according to you, gave you this oracle to tell to this man Orestes, that in avenging the murder of his father he should take no account at all of the rights of his mother?
Apollo: Yes, because it is simply not the same thing – the death of a noble man, honoured with a royal sceptre granted him by Zeus, and that too at the hands of a woman, and then not by the far-shooting martial bow of, say, an Amazon, but in the manner of which you shall hear, Pallas, and you who are sitting with her to decide this case by your votes. When he returned from his expedition, which had been for the most part a successful venture, she welcomed him with kindly words and attended him when he was having a hot bath in a silver tub, and then at the end spread a garment over him like a tent, hobbled the man in an endless robe she had craftily devised, and struck him down.
– Aeschylus, from Eumenides (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)