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| Willem De Kooning Abstraction 1949-50 oil on cardboard Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Willem De Kooning Red Man with Mustache 1971 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| James Ensor Chinoiserie with Fans 1880 oil on canvas Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Brussels |
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| James Ensor Still Life with Tulips and Roses 1882 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Juan Gris Still Life with Violin and Sheet Music 1914 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Juan Gris The Checkerboard 1915 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond Eruption of Stromboli Volcano, 30 August 1842 1842 oil on paper, mounted on canvas private collection |
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| Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond Cascade at Tivoli ca. 1822-25 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Canaletto Canale di Santa Chiara, Venice ca. 1730-40 oil on canvas Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris |
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| Canaletto Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi toward the Rialto, Venice ca. 1722 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| John Constable Cloud Study 1822 oil on paper Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| John Constable Cloud Study 1822 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Tom Roberts Coming South 1886 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Tom Roberts The Sculptor's Studio 1885 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| George Stubbs Pumpkin with a Stable Lad 1774 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| George Stubbs Lion and Lioness 1770 enamel on copper Yale Center for British Art |
Lioness Asleep
Content that now the bleeding bone be swept
Out of her reach, she lay upon her side.
In a blonde void sunk deep, she slept, she slept
Bland as a child, slept, breathing like a bride.
Color of noons that shimmer as they sing
Above the dunes, her sandy flanks heaved slow.
Between her paws curled inward, billowing
Waves of desert silence seemed to flow.
The crowd had gone, the bars were gone, the cage
Thinned into air, the sawdust and the fleas
Winnowed by sleep to nothing. After food,
Absence possessed her: bliss keener than rage,
If slumber's prisoner at a bound could seize
This ghostly freedom, lapping it like blood.
– Babette Deutsch (ca. 1940)