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| Piero di Cosimo Incarnation of Christ with Six Saints ca. 1500-1505 tempera on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Fra Bartolomeo Incarnation of Christ with Six Saints 1515 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Andrea del Sarto Virgin and Child with Six Saints ca. 1528 oil on panel Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Giorgio Vasari Six Tuscan Poets 1544 oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Tiburzio Passarotti St George slaying the Dragon, surrounded by Six Saints ca. 1575-1600 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Six Women with Headscarves before 1651 drawing British Museum |
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| Nicolas Poussin Holy Family with Six Putti 1651 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jan de Bisschop Six Antique Statues ca. 1668-71 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| William Gouw Ferguson Six Butterflies and a Moth on a Rose Branch ca. 1690 oil on panel Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Adriaen Coorte Six Shells on a Stone Shelf 1696 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| William Hogarth Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants ca. 1750-55 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Johan Zoffany King George III, Queen Charlotte, and their Six Eldest Children ca. 1770 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Sèvres Manufactory Six Draped Huntresses ca. 1790 porcelain plaque Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Massimo Campigli Six Women 1945 oil on canvas Estorick Collection, London |
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| Henry Moore Six Reclining Figures 1963 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
"According to Jacques Lacan the numbers zero to six are a special key to the psyche because the unconscious can't count beyond six."
– James Elkins, from What Painting Is (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 1999)