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| Louis Jean Müller La Lecture ca. 1899 color etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hans Heinrich Wägmann Woman Reading 1595 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Gerard ter Borch the Younger Young Man Reading ca. 1680 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Jusepe de Ribera St Jerome 1646 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Carl Larsson Interior 1900 watercolor on paper Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| August Krafft Portrait of jurist Jacob Wilder 1819 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Salomon Koninck Hermit 1643 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Philipp Klein On the Beach at Viareggio ca. 1895 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Man Reading on an Omnibus ca. 1865 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Carlo Maratti Young Woman Sewing ca. 1670 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Carl Albrecht The Embroiderer 1910 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giovanni Boldini Young Woman Crocheting 1875 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Camille Pissarro Mère Jolly Mending 1874 oil on canvas High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Girl Sewing 1887 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| Wilhelm Tischbein Young Woman with Flowers ca. 1810 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| George Dunlop Leslie Arranging Roses ca. 1880 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
from Translations
The world in my window is a color the Greeks called chlorol.
When I learned the word I was newly pregnant
and the first pale lichens had just speckled the silver branches.
The pines and the lichens in the chill drizzle were glowing green
and a book in my lap said chlorol was one of the untranslatable
words. The vibrating glow pleased me then, as a finger
dipped in sugar pleased me then. I said the word aloud
for the baby to hear. Chlorol. I imagined the baby
could only see hot pink and crimson inside its tiny universe,
but if you can see what I'm seeing, the word for it
is chlorol.
– Kathryn Nuemberger (2011)